Intruder in the Dust (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1948
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Justice, Race, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, 1930’s, Duty, Folklore, Mysteries, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Work
Intruder in the Dust proved to be one of William Faulkner’s most popular novels when it was first published. Set in the late 1940’s, it addresses the issue of civil rights for African Americans. In 1949, the novel was made into a film in Oxford, Mississippi.
Lucas Beauchamp, black descendant of the old slaveowner Carothers McCaslin, refuses to fit into the social pattern of race and position in Jefferson, Mississippi. This proud man of mixed blood, accused of murdering a white man, maintains his dignity by refusing to defend himself. Considered the...
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