Intellect

Authors:  Taylor Hagood 
DOI: 10.1386/ejac.26.2.83_1

Keywords
William Faulkner, cotton, space/place theory, globalisation, Mississippi, United States South

Abstract
In re-mapping the United States South, it is important to pay attention to the economic force that established the region as a global presence – cotton: its growth, its processing and its international market value. The international cotton market informs southern writer William Faulkner's work, especially his essay ‘Mississippi,’ both materially and metaphorically as a powerful political, economic and ecological presence that simultaneously establishes the South's exceptionalness while also inscribing it on national and international political maps.