Race and Racism in William Faulkner's Light in August

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature language: English abstract: In the thesis the situation of a maladjusted individual in the context of social relations illustrated with an example of the main character is presented. It is an attempt to prove that the novel is a metaphor for the conflict between the individual who fights for his place in the society and the system in which the struggle is doomed to be lost. Because the notion of race in Light in August is a metaphor for differences between people the book has the universal dimension that goes far beyond the political and social relations of the American South.