Introduction [excerpt] Among the conversations taking place around transnational literature, reading moments of silence proves to be quite useful in critically examining texts. This study approaches the topic of silence within two contemporary transnational texts: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Kamel Daoud's sequel to Camus' The Stranger, titled The Meursault...

Abstract This thesis covers two of William Faulkner's novels, Sanctuary and Absalom, Absalom!, with current feminist, queer, and intersectional discourse in mind. Today, Faulkner's novels are widely recognized as problematic, but this thesis attempts to re-read such novels in a new light without giving too much credence to authorial intent. In other words interpretations of Faulkner are not suggested to be related to his original...