Taking ‘money right out of an American's pockets’: Faulkner's South and the international cotton market.

In re-mapping the United States South, it is important to pay attention to the economic force that established the region as a global presence – cotton: its growth, its processing and its international market value. The international cotton market informs southern writer William Faulkner's work, especially his essay ‘Mississippi,’ both materially and metaphorically as a powerful political, economic and ecological presence that simultaneously establishes the South's exceptionalness while also inscribing it on national and international political maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]