522 Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (with Jolene Hubbs) | My Last Book with Mark Cirino
The History of Literature
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The Modernist Mantra for Poverty in the Great Depression
The novel has an experimental structure, one that among other things, issues linear narrative progression in favor of a form that engages with poverty. Faulkner writes the poor white protagonists experiences of social and economic stagnation into the body of the text by giving some of them a voice or by mirroring the experience they were having. But another formal factor that's important is the fact that we have poor white Southerners telling their own stories in their own voices.
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