William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Intruder in the Dust

(New York: Random House, 1948), published 27 September 1948, the fourteenth of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels and the tenth set in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the apocryphal town and county he created in his fiction, takes up again the themes of race relations between whites and African Americans that had been the subject of

Go Down, Moses

(1942). Its main character is, again, Lucas Beauchamp, the central figure in Faulker’s long story “The Fire and the Hearth” that dominates the first half of the earlier novel. However, instead of dealing with the effects of race on the black and white members of one Southern family, as does

Go Down, Moses

Intruder

poses the specific question whether it possible for a black man to receive justice in a…

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Citation: Meats, Stephen E.. "Intruder in the Dust". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 December 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4391, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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