This book locates Faulkner's historical vision in his use of 'frontier/grotesque', a cultural rhetoric associated with colonization, which appears in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. The book identifies "Absalom, Absalom!", "The Hamlet", and "Go Down, Moses as a 'mythic trilogy,' novels less concerned with portraying the harsh realities of the Depression than the author's vision of a South caught in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. Thomas Sutpen is a revolutionary frontiersman seeking to overturn the plantation system; Flem Snopes is a reactionary using the tactics of the pioneer to secure a place atop the system; and, Ike McCaslin is a remorseful heir who wants to transcend the system, but actually takes only temporary refuge from mastery by nostalgically play-acting the frontiersman. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the book is its definition of the grotesque as a function of rhetoric, which allows some of the more contentious theories of the grotesque to come together under one critical rubric. The book then shows how colonial power uses the rhetoric of the grotesque to convert the wilderness to settlement along frontiers.
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