Intruder in the Dust is a 1948 crime novel written by American author William Faulkner. Taking place in Mississippi, it revolves around an African American farmer accused of murdering a Caucasian man.
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Keep me signed in on this computer unless I sign out William Faulkner quotes “For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. 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Overview
The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the efforts of black and white teenagers and a spinster from a long-established Southern family. It was written as Faulkner's response as a Southern writer to the racial problems facing the South. [citation needed]
Intruder in the Dust is notable for its use of stream of consciousness style of narration. The novel also includes lengthy passages on the Southern memory of the American Civil War, one of which Shelby Foote quoted in Ken Burns' 1990 documentary The Civil War.
The characters of Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner's collection of short fiction, Go Down, Moses. A story by Faulkner, "Lucas Beauchamp," was published in 1999.
The character Gavin Stevens appears as a protagonist in Faulkner's short story collection Knight's Gambit (1949).
Intruder in the Dust was turned into a film of the same name directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. The film was shot in Faulkner's home town of Oxford, Mississippi. In 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."[1] The Nobel Prize was not specifically for his novel Intruder in the Dust but for the enduring contribution of his writing as a whole.
Analysis
In her contemporary review of the novel, Eudora Welty noted its humor.[2] Dayton Kohler's 1949 article noted the book's recognition of black Americans in the American south.[3] John E. Bassett has commented that this novel represents a "serious attempt to explore contemporary Southern racism through Gavin and Chick."[4] Jean E. Graham has discussed the contrasting rhetorical styles of Gavin and Chick throughout the course of the novel.[5] Ticien Marie Sassoubre has examined the novel in the context of the social issues related to lynching in the American South, and then-recent American federal law with respect to black Americans.[6]
D. Hutchinson has elucidated the unifying literary devices of the novel.[7] Peter J. Rabinowitz analyzed Faulkner's use of the detective story in the context of the "discovery novel" as compared to Dostoyevsky.[8]
References
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ^ Welty, Eudora (Winter 1949). "Review: In Yoknapatawpha". The Hudson Review. 1 (4): 33–47. doi:10.2307/3847827. JSTOR 3847827.
- ^ Kohler, Dayton (December 1949). "William Faulkner and the Social Conscience". The English Journal. 38 (10): 545–553. doi:10.2307/806854. JSTOR 806854.
- ^ Bassett, John E. (Fall 1986). "Gradual Progress and Intruder in the Dust". College Literature. 13 (3): 207–216. JSTOR 25111705.
- ^ Graham, Jean E. (Spring 1990). "Gavin Stevens in Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust: Only Too Rhetorical Rhetoric?". The Southern Literary Journal. 22 (2): 78–89. JSTOR 20077989.
- ^ Sassoubre, Ticien Marie (Spring 2007). "Avoiding Adjudication in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Intruder in the Dust". Criticism. 49 (2): 183–214. doi:10.1353/crt.0.0016. JSTOR 23128734. S2CID 153508996.
- ^ Hutchinson, D. (October 1972). "The Style of Faulkner's INTRUDER IN THE DUST". Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. 39 (39): 33–47. JSTOR 41801885.
- ^ Rabinowitz, Peter J. (May 1979). "The Click of the Spring: The Detective Story as Parallel Structure in Dostoyevsky and Faulkner". Modern Philology. 76 (4): 355–369. doi:10.1086/390876. JSTOR 437695. S2CID 162258674.
External links
- Intruder in the Dust at Faded Page (Canada)
- John Anderson page on William Faulkner
- Laurel Longe's article Lucas Beauchamp, Joe Christmas, and the Color of Humanity
- Intruder in the Dust at Digital Yoknapatawpha
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