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TERRORIZING WHITENESS IN YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTY

In Absalom, Absalom! Quentin Compson's epiphany that Clytie "owns the terror" (295) is a white conceptualization: to white (and terrified) Quentin, Clytie embodies the fears of race-mixture that characterize any white supremacist society, certainly the pre-Civil Rights-era South. Quentin, though one of the most confused and tortured individuals in Yoknapatawpha, is, up until this point, at least sure of one thing: he is sure of his race. He knows he is white, and he knows-or thinks he knows-how to negotiate the racial codes of his culture, even if he is less sure about the gender codes, the sexuality codes, the honor codes, and all the rest. But confronted with the fact of Clytie's mixed ...

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