Abstract:Joanna Burden is a main character in Faulkner's Light in August(1932).She has de dicated herself to the uplift of the black race in a white-dominant society.Yet she is eventually murdered by her love ...Joanna Burden is a main character in Faulkner's Light in August(1932).She has de dicated herself to the uplift of the black race in a white-dominant society.Yet she is eventually murdered by her love Joe Christmas a so-calledhalf-niggerwho refuses to be raised.Unscrambing Joanna's anti-racism attitude will help reader s to understand thoroughly the theme of race in the novel.Thus the whole society ,including American whites,will cognize the dominance and evil of racism,then im prove the living condition as well as the social status of the black people.Fina lly they will eliminate racism on their own initiative and racial equality will be achieved.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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