Chapter 5. Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha
Published Online: 6 MAR 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306026.ch5
Copyright © 2009 John T. Matthews
Book Title
William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
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How to Cite
Matthews, J. T. (2009) Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha, in William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444306026.ch5
Publication History
- Published Online: 6 MAR 2009
- Published Print: 2 JAN 2009
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ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405124812
Online ISBN: 9781444306026
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Faulkner's fiction Seeing a South Beyond Yoknapatawpha;
- Faulkner's fiction through Go Down, Moses tends primarily to be diagnostic about race – figuring out its roots in plantation slavery;
- Faulkner's post-World War II South - traditional privilege of whites to imagine blacks as they chose;
- Blackness was felt as an unfamiliar absence - African Americans experiencing courtesies and regard from whites;
- Chick experiencing sensation of black self-representation when he inspects the portrait of himself Lucas displays;
- Faulkner pursuing question of guilt and shame in Requiem for a Nun (1950) - hybrid of narrative prose and dramatic dialogue;
- From the opening page of Requiem, the unifying theme of American history appears to be plunder;
- Faulkner globalizes Snopesism as a Cold War drama;
- In A Fable - Faulkner exaggerates the tyranny that an interconnected mafia exerts over world affairs