A Study of Faulkner's Religious Critical Thought Based on the Image of Black Women
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DOI: 10.25236/ecomhs.2019.085
Corresponding Author
Shi Qin
Abstract
In the 20th century, the famous American writer William Faulkner grew up in the "Bible Belt" of the southern United States. Due to the influence of religious and cultural environment, Faulkner infiltrated a strong religious color into his works, reflecting his complex diversity of religious thoughts. As a representative of the southern Renaissance, Faulkner created numerous black female images in different periods. Through attention and characterization of the black women at the bottom of the southern society under the white rule, he reveals the fact that the southern religion and the decayed and evil old southern cultural tradition are mutually integrated and accelerate the collapse of the old south. This paper studies and interprets the artistic depiction of the special group of black women, which is the artistic expression of Faulkner's critical thoughts of southern religion and his humanitarian spirit in the southern Renaissance.
Keywords
Faulkner, religion outlook, black female, image-building, Southern Renaissance