Introduction / Annette Trefzer -- Note on the conference -- Many mansions: Faulkner's Cold War conflicts / John T. Matthews -- From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck -- The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. Benson -- On the tragedies and comedies of the new world Faulkner / George B. Handley -- Blood on the leaves, blood at the root: ritual carriers and sacrificial crises of transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo / Keith Cartwright -- Reading Faulkner in Spain, reading Spain in Faulkner / Manuel Broncano -- The global/local nexus of patriarchy: Japanese writers encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka -- Artificial women, the Pygmalion paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon in Mosquitoes / Mario Materassi -- Almost feminine, almost brother, almost Southern: the transnational queer figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Elizabeth Steeby -- Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem -- Faulkner and me / Tierno Monénembo.