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Minnie Cooper and John McClendon in Faulkner’s “Dry September”
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+ american literature, an art commentary on lynching, naacp, paul cadmus, reginald marsh, southern literature, to the lynching, Uncategorized, william faulkner
Minnie Cooper and John McClendon in Faulkner’s “Dry September”
by Matthew Teutsch
Last Thursday, I wrote about the “blank spaces” in William Faulkner’s “Dry September” and some works by Ernest J. Gaines. Today, I want to look at a couple of scenes in Faulkner’s story and discuss the ways that Faulkner delves into the psychological effects of lynchings and racial violence on the perpetrators themselves. As such, I will briefly discuss Minnie Cooper and John McClendon … Read More Minnie Cooper and John McClendon in Faulkner’s “Dry September”