The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha - The Actual and the Apocryphal

As William Faulkner himself and the authors of these essays insist, the South is part of the United States and ultimately a part of Western society. Rather than considering Faulkner as an isolated southern oddity who inexplicably wrote important fiction, these authors explore why Faulkner's “Southerness” made him universal.