Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, Kevin Murphy, Harriet Pollack, Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, and Ryoichi Yamane p Working closely in each other's orbit in Mississippi, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright created lasting portraits of southern culture, each from a distinctly different vantage point. Taking into consideration their personal, political, and artistic ways of responding to the histories and realities of their time and place, iFaulkner, Welty, Wright A Mississippi Confluencei offers comparative scholarship that forges new connections--or, as Welty might say, traces new confluences--across texts, authors, identities, and traditions. p In the collection, contributors discuss Faulkner's iLight in Augusti iSanctuaryi iGo Down, Mosesi iAs I Lay Dyingi A Rose for Emily and That Evening Sun Welty's iOne Writ