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Article: William Faulkner and Southern History.
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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Though most historians of the South offer lip-service to William Faulkner's greatness, his influence on them is far from evident. The two figures who divide modern Southern history between them -- W. J. Cash and C. Vann Woodward -- have both paid homage to Oxford's not-so-favorite son. Yet it should be noted that neither Cash nor Woodward was originally enthusiastic about Faulkner's work. More recently, Michael O'Brien, a Southern intellectual historian, has wondered out loud what all the fuss about Faulkner is anyway. Still, if there is any doubt that the weight of the Southern past has been experienced as a burden or that the classical Southern "mind" lacked the ...
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