Indigenous doom: Colonial mimicry in Faulkner's Indian tales

The Faulkner Journal | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

WILLIAM FAULKNER'S DECISION TO WRITE about the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha evolved into a life-long exploration of what he perceived to be the doomed culture of the American South. Cursed by slavery, the Southern society of Faulkner's mythic world is unable to reconcile the negative effects of the planter aristocracy's capitalistic aspirations. While most critics explore this fatal vision by studying the oppositional relationships between black and white Americans in Faulkner's uvre, an examination of his fictional representation of Native Americans offers a more comprehensive field in ...

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