The Mississippi Quarterly, June 22nd, 1996
The author examines racism and the depiction of blacks in the works of author William Faulkner. Topics include development of fictional characters, social standards, and symbolism.
He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word. He would not look tip then. He would not move, apparently arrested and held immobile by a single word which had perhaps not yet impacted, his whole being suspended by the single trivial combination of letters in quiet and sunny space, so that hanging motionless and without physical weigh...
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