Abstract
This article examines how Jesmyn Ward’s novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) engages with the legacy of fellow Mississippian William Faulkner. Like Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), Sing tells the story of a fragmenting family’s road trip across Mississippi, but Ward offers a different account of the social conditions that prompt such fragmentation, doing more than Faulkner to foreground the wide-ranging effects of racism. Sing also examines the enduring consequences of racist legal practices through its portrayal of Parchman Farm—a prison-cum-cotton-plantation that also features in Faulkner’s work
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