Faulkner and Whiteness

by Jay Watson

Book Overview

William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in Faulkner's prose. Faulkner's fiction contains frequent questions about the ways in which white Americans view themselves with regard to race along with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161703942X
• ISBN13: 9781617039423
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"