Racial Wounding and the Aesthetics of the Middle Voice in "Absalom, Absalom!" and "Go Down, Moses"

This article examines how the narrative technique known as the “middle voice” operates in William Faulkner’s novels Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses to portray racial trauma. It situates racial injury not just as historical fact but as an ongoing wound embedded within language and narrative structure. The middle voice — a stylistic and rhetorical mode that sits between active and passive — allows Faulkner to represent events that are both inflicted and internalized, capturing the complexity of racial violence and its lingering effects on collective memory and identity. The study connects theories of trauma, memory, and representation to analyze how Faulkner’s narrative voice conveys experiences that are difficult to articulate directly, highlighting the aesthetic strategies that make racial wounds both visible and inexpressible in literary form.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Gwin, Minrose C.

Đề mục:

Literary studies

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2004/Spring 2005

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 20, Number 1/2, Fall 2004/Spring 2005, Pages 21-33,198

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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