Region,Race,Eugenics:On Anderson and Faulkner's Different Literary Visions
A close examination of Anderson and Faulkner's works and a review of the latter's parodic comments on the former demonstrate the two writers'different views on region,race,and blood,with Anderson's initial accommodation and Faulkner's later refutation of the racial essentialism embedded in eugenics.This study does not intend to deny their stylistic similarities and connections,but to reveal their different positions on Anglo-Saxon nationalism,further unravel the dynamic inheritance and evolution of their literary visions,and meanwhile offer a glimpse into the cross-boundary dialogue between the early-20th-century American literature and the discourses of racial science.