결과등록시 초록은 학술논문에 게재되어 있는 주초록으로 대체하였음.
본 논문에는 별도의 목차가 없음.

결과등록시 초록은 학술논문에 게재되어 있는 주초록으로 대체하였음.
본 논문에는 별도의 목차가 없음.

Race is one of Faulkner's central subjects. As a white Southerner, he apparently held an ambivalent attitude towards his South as he was torn between an idealistic view of the Old South and a stark recognition that the whole Southern culture depe ...

Race is one of Faulkner's central subjects. As a white Southerner, he apparently held an ambivalent attitude towards his South as he was torn between an idealistic view of the Old South and a stark recognition that the whole Southern culture depended on the institution of slavery. His view of the black people was related to his feelings about the South. As regards the question of race in his real South and in his fictionalized one, Faulkner was a firm believer in the rights and equality of the black people, although he realized that there was a distance between the real and the ideal. And he sometimes offended his white Southerners with his liberal views. At the same time, he did not want the North to meddle with the question and expressed his feeling that the South needed the time to go slow for its solution.

Instead of passing racism as normal, Faulkner made an extensive diagnosis of what was wrong with it so that the readers could confront its virulence. Except for a few statements offending the blacks, he consistently depicted them with a deep sympathy. He always saw them as a people forced to endure persecution in the white dominant society, and did his best to make accurate observations of the bitter life that the black people were condemned to live under the pressure of the paternalistic white society. However, to a certain extent his black characters are better than the whites, especially with the most valuable virtues such as courage, dignity, endurance and so on to maintain their individuality in the face of plight and persecution. And the black people he created in his fictional world were the very testament of his willingness to speak the truth about the past and present of the South whose history was sullied with that disgraceful, inhuman institution, and to have that history revised in order to visualize his dreams for a better world.