Jay Maxwell Watson

Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner

Faulkner and Whiteness

William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in ...

American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (The New Southern Studies)

Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.In their introduction, Deborah Bark...

Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Édouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that "Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans," a goal that "will be achieved by a radically 'other' reading." In the spirit of Glissant's pred...

Faulkner's Geographies (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable co...

Fifty Years after Faulkner (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

These essays examine issues across the wide arc of Faulkner's extraordinary career, from his aesthetic apprenticeship in the visual arts, to late-career engagements with the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and beyond, to the place of death in his artistic vision and the long, varied afterlives ...

Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner

Forensic Fictions is the first book-length critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in light of the southern storytelling tradition, Jay Watson argues that the forensic competence of the Faulkneria...

Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 (The New Southern Studies)

Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. Sout...

Spooked (Jay Watson Mini-Mysteries Book 1)

With graduation fast approaching, Jay Watson has a lot on his mind, like how to keep his girlfriend satisfied, pass his internship, spend his trust fund, dodge a gypsy curse, and solve the mystery of a ghostly '57 Chevy. In other words, it's just another day for Jay.