An Encounter with Faulkner’s Southern Personae

Abstract

This essay is trying to explore the relationship between American modern novelists. William Faulkner and his culture quality and character of Southernism. Except for the unique individuality of American Deep South, as a descendant of distinguished southern farm-owner, Faulkner has his plentiful and unparalleled understanding towards South. The first part of this essay deals with the thematic explanations of Southernism in Faulkner's works. Using his thematic consistent series of works, Faulkner created a Yoknapatawpha World. Behind the background of Faulkner's family, not only the saga of Satoris, Sutpen, McCullers, Compson and Snopes, but also the southern living scenes of Frenchman's Bend, railways, wild forests are all vividly depicted. Furthermore, using the themaric explanations Faulkner expressed his ambiguous and complicated cultural criticism towards racial discrimination, living conditions of Southern descendants and the history, actuality and future of Deep South.