Fatherless Children and Post-Patrilineal Futures in William Faulkner's "Light in August", "Absalom, Absalom!" and "Go Down, Moses"

This article analyzes how William Faulkner’s major novels Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses depict children without fathers and imagine futures beyond traditional patriarchal/lineage structures. Faulkner’s works are read through the lens of family, race, identity, and the social legacies of the American South. The author explores how characters negotiate the absence of fathers and disrupted family lines — often because of violence, racial conflict, or the collapse of antebellum social order — and how these figures point toward possible post-patrilineal futures. Using literary and cultural analysis, the article situates these narrative patterns in the broader context of Faulkner’s critique of Southern patriarchy and the social history that shapes his fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Carden, Mary Paniccia

Đề mục:

Literary criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2013

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2013, Pages 51-75,91

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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Fatherless Children and Post-Patrilineal Futures in William Faulkner's "Light in August", "Absalom, Absalom!" and "Go Down, Moses"

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