"Ah kin pass wid anything": Blackness as Figural Excess in Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses"

This article analyzes how race, especially Blackness, is represented and performed in William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses through the idea of figural excess—that is, how Black characters and racial dynamics disrupt normative racial categories and aesthetic limits in Faulkner’s work. The title phrase (drawn from Faulkner’s text) signals a mode of expression and existence that escapes fixed identity. The analysis argues that Faulkner’s depiction of Blackness challenges and expands the narrative boundaries of the novel by becoming a site where race is staged, contested, and made visible beyond simplistic oppositions. The article situates Faulkner within a broader discussion of race as social construct and racial performance.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Thyssen, Christina

Đề mục:

Literary criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2015

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 29, Number 2, Fall 2015, Pages 89-109

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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"Ah kin pass wid anything": Blackness as Figural Excess in Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses"

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