DIANE ROBERTS is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region.

Roberts's readings are everywhere interesting, and frequently new. Virtually every page offers, for me at least, a provocative interpretation of even the tiniest detail. Her literary scholarship, too, is exemplary. Clearly she has read the Faulkner criticism as carefully and as widely as she has the numerous texts of southern culture within whose context she carries out her own analyses of Faulkner's work.

DIANE ROBERTS is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region.

Roberts's readings are everywhere interesting, and frequently new. Virtually every page offers, for me at least, a provocative interpretation of even the tiniest detail. Her literary scholarship, too, is exemplary. Clearly she has read the Faulkner criticism as carefully and as widely as she has the numerous texts of southern culture within whose context she carries out her own analyses of Faulkner's work.

DIANE ROBERTS is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region.

Roberts's readings are everywhere interesting, and frequently new. Virtually every page offers, for me at least, a provocative interpretation of even the tiniest detail. Her literary scholarship, too, is exemplary. Clearly she has read the Faulkner criticism as carefully and as widely as she has the numerous texts of southern culture within whose context she carries out her own analyses of Faulkner's work.