23 English eng Railey, Kevin Contributor <p data-start="149" data-end="388">The article examines <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline" style="">Absalom, Absalom!</span> by <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline" style="">William Faulkner</span> as a powerful critique of the <span data-start="279" data-end="320" style="">racial ideology of the American South</span>, particularly the legacy of slavery and its lasting cultural logic. Rather than treating race as a background issue, the essay argues that <span data-start="461" data-end="549" style="">racial thinking is central to the novel’s structure, plot, and narrative uncertainty</span>.</p> The Johns Hopkins University Press Spring 1999 pdf ISSN 0884-2949 Literary Studies "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Southern Ideology of Race mixed material The Johns Hopkins University Press