Intruder in the Dust FAU 3

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white woman

Intruder in the dust is concerned with racialism and the status of the Negro, as are many good novels about the American South, but the fact that Faulkner was a Southerner himself ensures that it is not just a tract, but a brilliant depiction of a society that the author belonged to and understood