SOURCE: Polk, Noel. “Man in the Middle: Faulkner and the Southern White Moderate.” In Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner, pp. 219-41. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996.
In the following essay, Polk explores Faulkner's views on social issues—particularly race in the South—both in his fiction and his personal life.
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