Interrogating Race and Nation in William Faulkner

'Race' and 'nation', two concepts that are becoming more and more of interest and significance to scholars in the field of literature, American studies, political science, cultural studies, literary theory, film studies and communication. This work looks into some Yoknapatawpha novels of William Faulkner, the great American writer of the twentieth-century and Nobel Prize winner, and examines how race and nation, as well as history and memory, define the American Southerner. This book also gives a groundbreaking definition to the South from a postcolonial perspective. Scholars and students, as well as general readers, will be attracted to this book and it will help them think further of either Faulkner or the correlation between 'race' and 'nation' in the United States, especially in the American South.

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Angela RAMSOONDUR-MUNGUR, B.A (Hons) English, University of Mauritius; Diploma in Copywriting, Institute of Copywriting; MPhil in English, University of Mauritius. Ex-student of Loreto Vacoas and Loreto Quatre-Bornes. Worked in advertising as copywriter and in education as English teacher. Actually full-time lecturer at the University of Mauritius.

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''Race'' and ''nation'', two concepts that are becoming more and more of interest and significance to scholars in the field of literature, American studies, political science, cultural studies, literary theory, film studies and communication. This work looks into some Yoknapatawpha novels of William Faulkner, the great American writer of the twentieth-century and Nobel Prize winner, and examines how race and nation, as well as history and memory, define the American Southerner. This book also gives a groundbreaking definition to the South from a postcolonial perspective. Scholars and students, as well as general readers, will be attracted to this book and it will help them think further of either Faulkner or the correlation between ''race'' and ''nation'' in the United States, especially in the American South.