Premium Content Conservative Racist Ideology and the Post Reconstruction South
By Caitlin Hofert - March 01, 2008
As one of the great stylists of the twentieth century, William Faulkner explores the South’s haunting past throughout several novels. His novel Light in August is one of many set in Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional place in Mississippi, where he explores the fallout and change in the early to mid 1900’s caused by Reconstruction. In this novel…
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