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Understanding 9/11tv William Faulkner Collection CSPAN April 16, 2017 7:46pm-8:01pm EDT
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book bring it up and i will sign it. [inaudible conversations] >> i am here diversity of of virginia library in will be showing us that current exhibit on faulkner. >> we're in the main gallery from the special collections library from the university of virginia the current exhibition is of large urd exhibition of for that collection we have at the library a great american novelist who spent the last few years of his career in
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the early '50s and '60s best known for his novels including the century. and the short story writer. and even though we often bring individuals to put them on display so to have that public access with a huge range of material also the 60th anniversary of his arrival and distill have people coming to visit telling us how they match him while they were there. also spent a lot of time with the students faculty committee members female students from women's
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colleges and other groups about the state of pretty much anything else also enjoyed living in virginia as a fox hunt in david go fox hunting whenever they could. there is a lot of artifacts many that have come from the sources including uh typewriter that was issued and the jacket that he wore it is pretty torn up and ready meetings the jacket hanging in his office from his last trip when he passed
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away and even put the pipe cleaners on display. collections are so fast it is difficult to decide so they decided to look at what was constructed by faulkner actively by which she's found himself thrust his life there are 13 different aspects of his personality. trying to cover the of personal and professional people don't know that faulkner was a wonderful artist through to his life and people don't know after he won the nobel prize he was an ambassador trying to
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show some of the most iconic items in the collection. also family history is on display one that i find incredibly interesting place front and center at the beginning is long before he was born in this receipt for a slave sold by his grandfather. we thought this was important to put this in the exhibition just how important the history was and how he developed as a writer the issue of slavery and race relations in the south are central to his work as the topics are covered with a brilliance to make sure we put that artifacts on display of what he inherited so when he
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spent time in hollywood as the screenwriter he really liked his time in hollywood he would write screenplays for the studios to make money he was having a very hard time to make ends meet because his books were not selling as well if they were more readable so he needed to find other ways to support his family and screenwriting worked for all long time he did that for a couple of decades the items on display are wonderful my favorite is for the film the big sleep. in one of his essays faulkner would refer to himself to have a position as a white southerner.
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anyone who approaches faulkner or seasoning teaching sees himself as having a challenging position especially to the african-american community around oxford and then to be featured in that fictional form the house that looks in particular how he grapples with racial affinity in the '50s when the nobel prize his fame explodes his books sold in massive quantities so he becomes a household name at the time the civil rights movement starts to gather steam so they become more vocal in polarizing in the united states so faulkner in is called upon as a public figure to comment and even asked when
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abroad as an american tellus what you think with these issues having to do with the integration. but it shows faulkner trying hard to figure rashes own position and integration what is wonderful about these documents and shows he is stuck with those positions on the one hand that needed to happen but said at odds but whenever he would often call for a slow gradual move toward integration he also felt he had the loyalty to the south corner the north not to tell the south what to do so he is constantly shifting overtime.
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and his perspective is interesting and i find it there is a lot to think about and that collection and the is the most profound in carrying this exhibition. if you are a fanatic you to look at the manuscripts and if you are not or had some trauma and high-school we want you to understand his biography to have people come away with bill hall and entire person to influence to sit down so much of the time was spent to care for his family and what he accomplished and for people to get a full range of the
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material it is a treasure and we're happy to share it. . >> just shot out the names when i say bill of rights the names that pop into your head the famous bill of rights cases? brown. madison. griswald.
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brown. sullivan. i cannot fool this crowd but with that said public have of those cases that you shouted out is not bill of rights. marbury vs. madison was appellate jurisdiction of dread scott is about the of fundamental rights but those landmark cases in the latter if you more. griswold vs. connecticut.
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roadie weighed none of those is the bill of rights case. because the bill of rights and rigidly was against a federal government in the tenth amendment is in between of celebrations with an anti-federalist teethirty but that is not our bill of rights today so to have those states and localities with gideon and laurence vs.
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texas and for alabama to shut down. or ran the verses arizona most of the cases those bill of rights cases are not original bill of rights was limiting the central government. so what kind of cases are? with a brown verses board of education? the 14th amendment cases that they shall enforce any law that is a second bill of rights that is more
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intuitive than today because the state this be a because madison lost but no state shall violate so he wishes in the end so also a little bit ironic because all of this precipitated the 14th amendment from the abuse of power to be charter members to from day political party on the southern base that benefited in the electoral college because of the 3/5 clause jefferson and madison
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every election there getting in the house of representatives because of the existence of slavery so it is both ironic that the bill of rights is through the 14th amendment. >> good evening we will present the congressman with his new book. please silence your cellphone. [applause] . .
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