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Southern Masculinities in Faulkner?s The Unvanquished and Barn Burning

The youthful protagonists of The Unvanquished and "Barn Burning," Bayard Sartoris and Sarty Snopes respectively, offer through their experiences and, most importantly, the way their stories are told, telling insights about the constructions of southern masculinities with respect to class. The relative innocence that each of the boys has in common, though ultimately loses, provides a record of sorts to the formation of the impressions that shape their young lives and their early conceptions of what it means to be a man. Through narrative artifice, Faulkner is able to make observations, apt but at times scathing, about these constructions of southern masculinity as envisioned by both aristocratic and lower whites.

Bayard obviously recounts the proceedings of The Unvanquished from an indefinite future. Faulkner's choice to intersperse the first person narration and the boyish dialogue of the participants with mature, pensive commentary betrays the identity of the narrator, but what one may misconstrue as a si... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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