"A STRANGE NIGGER": FAULKNER AND THE MINSTREL PERFORMANCE OF WHITENESS From: The Faulkner Journal | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Duvall, John N | Copyright University of Central Florida Fall 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Despite the assertions of many racist characters in Yoknapatawpha County, William Faulkner's fiction repeatedly illustrates that race is not a simple matter of essence or biology but is always mediated by performance. Faulkner particularly makes visible an opening between racial and cultural identity through certain reflections on the racist construct "nigger." During his year at Harvard, Quentin Compson comes to realize that "a nigger is not a person so much as a form of behavior" (SF 86). I...

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