Hegemony,Crisis,and Retrotopia:Cross-Racial Community Writing in Faulkner's Novels
Faulkner's novels portray the cross-racial community within the McCaslin family lineage,delineating three distinct forms of cross-racial community:community of nature,community of destiny,and community of emotion,demonstrating Faulkner's evolving reflec-tions on the racial relations between African and white Americans during different periods of his writing.During the era of slavery,the intrusion of white invaders led to a hegemonic rule based on land plunder,shattering the ideal of cross-racial community of nature.During the reconstruction period,spatial segregation fostered political,economic,and cultural iso-lation,resulting in frequent racial violence between blacks and whites,gradually eroding the cross-racial community of common destiny.During the Civil Rights Movement,the narra-tive recollections of the white protagonist,Lucius Priest,constructed the retrotopia,in which whites and blacks coalesce into a cross-racial community of emotion to conceal and evade the racial conflicts in reality.
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