William Faulkner
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All of William Faulkner's works examine at least in some measure the question of redemption. The quest for salvation, the desire to be redeemed in another world for the actions that we have taken in this one, is arguably an essential part of Southern literature in general, and a Freudian (or anyone generally inclined towards the more heavy-handed versions of psychoanalysis) might argue that the quest for salvation that runs through Southern writing reflects the collective guilt of the region for the legacy of slavery. That historical guilt is touched in Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun, and the ways in which redemption is handed out (and withheld) in the final scene suggests that Faulkner is indeed engaged in an act of col
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