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Ho, Wen-Ching. "Miscegenation in William Faulkner: A Synecdoche for Slavery/Caste System," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1989. Advisor: Lyall H. Powers (12, 2, 3)
Miscegenation occupies an important place in Faulkner’s fiction. Defining miscegenation as any racial mixture, the study distinguishes six kinds of blood mixing: (1) between black males and white females; (2) between white males and black females; (3) between red men and black women; (4) between white men and red women; (5) between Asians and black women; and (6) between Caucasians and Asians. I discuss “Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum,” “Peter,” Sartoris/Flags in the Dust, “Red Leaves,” “Dry September,” “That Evening Sun,” “A Justice,” Light in August, “Mountain Victory,” “There Was a Queen,” “Elly,” “Evangeline,” “Lion,” Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, the Big Woods version of “A Bear Hunt,” and The Reivers. My investigation yields the following thesis: Faulkner tends to use miscegenation as a synecdoche for slavery or caste. Finally, his presentation of the Ike McCaslin-Sam Fathers, Chick Mallison-Lucas Beauchamp, and Temple Drake-Nancy Mannigoe relationships points to a growing optimism toward black-white relations.
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