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Race and Class in Faulkner

Race and Class in Faulkner by L inda Wagner-Martin Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner. By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1999. xviii + 213 pp. $29.95. Faulkner on the Color L ine: The Later Novels.By Theresa M. Towner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. 179 pp. $35.00. Moving into the new millennium, one has the sense that criti- cism of William Faulkner’s oeuvre has greatly improved. Both Kevin Railey’s Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner and Theresa Towner’s Faulkner on the Color L ine: The Later Nov- els are valuable books. By helping readers to locate Faulkner’s treatment of racial issues within his later novels — from Intruders in the Dust (1948) through The Reivers (1962) — Towner summarizes one of the more con- troversial topics of recent Faulkner criticism. It is Kevin Riley’s wide- ranging assessment of the way Faulkner’s fiction becomes a useful site for any consideration of history, text, and author, however, that deserves the label “ground-breaking.” Railey approaches William Faulkner the author as the product of the ideology of his culture, both Lafayette County, Mississippi, and the South. Managing to provide discussions of his use of terms “paternal- ism” and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Race and Class in Faulkner

Wagner-Martin, Linda.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 34 (2) – Jun 1, 2002
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by L inda Wagner-Martin Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner. By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1999. xviii + 213 pp. $29.95. Faulkner on the Color L ine: The Later Novels.By Theresa M. Towner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000. 179 pp. $35.00. Moving into the new millennium, one has the sense that criti- cism of William Faulkner’s oeuvre has greatly improved. Both Kevin Railey’s Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner and Theresa Towner’s Faulkner on the Color L ine: The Later Nov- els are valuable books. By helping readers to locate Faulkner’s treatment of racial issues within his later novels — from Intruders in the Dust (1948) through The Reivers (1962) — Towner summarizes one of the more con- troversial topics of recent Faulkner criticism. It is Kevin Riley’s wide- ranging assessment of the way Faulkner’s fiction becomes a useful site for any consideration of history, text, and author, however, that deserves the label “ground-breaking.” Railey approaches William Faulkner the author as the product of the ideology of his culture, both Lafayette County, Mississippi, and the South. Managing to provide discussions of his use of terms “paternal- ism” and

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