Toni Morrison and the anxiety of Faulknerian influence / John N. Duvall -- The long high gaze : the mythical consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner / Carolyn Denard -- Toni Morrison and William Faulkner : remapping culture / Andrea Dimino -- David and Solomon : fathering in Faulkner and Morrison / Philip M. Weinstein -- Riff, refrain, reframe : Toni Morrison's Song of Absalom / Nancy Ellen Batty -- Narrative time/spiritual text : Beloved and As I Lay Dying / Karla F.C. Holloway -- The grandfather clause : reading the legacy from The Bear to Song of Solomon / Lucinda H. McKethan --Black matters on the Dixie Limited : As I Lay Dying and The Bluest Eye / Theresa M. Towner -- Untold stories : black daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye / Keith E. Byerman -- Reading for the "other side" : Beloved and Requiem for a Nun / Doreen Fowler -- History and story, sign and design : Faulknerian and postmodern voices in Jazz / Roberta Rubenstein -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan -- A postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, a modern Beloved : the dialectic of form / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Signifying silences : Morrison's soundings in the Faulknerian void / Phillip Novak -- Faulkner in light of Morrison / Patrick O'Donnell.