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Published May 11, 1942, by Random House, under the (mistaken) title of Go Down, Moses, And Other Stories; dedicated “To Mammy Caroline Barr, Mississippi, [1840-1940]: Who was born in slavery and who gave to my family a fidelity without stint or calculation of recompense and to my childhood an immeasurable devotion and love.” One of Faulkner’s masterpieces, Go Down, Moses is an episodic novel consisting of short stories, most of which were published elsewhere. A difficult novel at times (particularly in Section 4 of “The Bear”), the novel tells the story of the McCaslin family, beginning with the family patriarch Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin, and his many descendants, both black and white. It is a noteworthy exploration of race, particularly as it is compounded with miscegenation, and is concerned also with the vanishing wilderness. The Story The novel unfolds in discrete stories that are achronological. For an examination of the plot sequence in the order in which they appear in time, see Arthur F. Kinney’s Go Down, Moses: The Miscegenation of Time. “Was” Isaac McCaslin, 'Uncle Ike,' past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated any more, a widower now and uncle to half a county and father to no one      this was not something participated in or even seen by himself, but by his elder cousin, McCaslin Edmonds, grandson of Isaac's father's sister and so descended by the distaff, yet notwithstanding the inheritor, and in his time the bequestor, of that which some had thought then and some still thought should have been Isaac's, since his was the name in which the title to the land had first been granted from the Indian patent and which some of the descendants of his father's slaves still bore to the land. “Was,” the first story/chapter in Go Down, Moses begins with a reference to Isaac McCaslin, one of the key characters in the novel, and a flashback to.
One of America’s greatest fiction writers, William Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 1950. Go Down, Moses addresses an important theme in American literature—the relationships between blacks and whites in the South through several generations. The novel narrates events between 1859 and 1941 and also presents in retrospect events dealing with the McCaslin plantation from its founding by Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin near the beginning of the nineteenth century. The seven stories that compose the novel are linked geographically and thematically. All the events take place on or near the McCaslin land in Mississippi and all but one deal with members of the McCaslin family. The family includes the McCaslins, descendants from the male line; the Edmondses, descendants from the female line; and the Beauchamps, descendants through Lucius Quintus Carothers McCaslin’s relations with his slaves. Themes that link the stories are family, love, and race relationships and the ritual of the hunt. Stylistic devices such as repetition with variations and a complicated chronology also link the stories. By repeating with variations many events of the novel, Faulkner provides for multiple views and voices. By avoiding a strict chronology of events and by reiterating events already narrated, Faulkner leaves the impression of oral history, of a family history being recovered or discovered by different members at different times. Each of the seven stories includes a hunt, but the type of hunt and its connotations vary widely. Treated humorously are Sophonsiba’s husband-hunting in “Was” and Lucas’s hunt for buried treasure in “The Fire and the Hearth.” Most of the hunts in the novel are more serious. Manhunts occur in “Was,” “Pantaloon in Black,” and “Go Down, Moses.” “Was” treats the pursuit of Turl humorously, but the reader discovers in.
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