Racism and Slavery in William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust

This research was mainly conducted to figure out whether Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust could be read from a postcolonial perspective, and whether the issues of Othering , racism and slavery are applicable to this novel. The study of racism is one of the significant sections of postcolonialism. This study examines the notion of other, racism and slavery based on Homi Bhabha’s key terms in William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust. The aim is to show the persistence of racism and racial discrimination among blacks and whites, and Bhabha’s cultural interaction in the novel. The study shows how the concrete reactions cover only one specific cluster of reactions to others among a specific group and in a limited number of contexts. It is also necessary to emphasize that the refusal of Othering can be understood as a specific variant of a common tendency to refuse negative categorizations imposed by others

Keywords:

Post-colonialism , Racism , Slavery , Other , Cultural Interaction