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L’impossible de la fondation

Les Indiens de William Faulkner
Aude Lalande
p. 31-58

Abstracts

The Impossible Foundation. Native Americans in William Faulkner’s Novels. – Appearing in Faulkner’s novels over the years but always along the margins, Native Americans, herein the Choctaw and Chickasaw, provide a basis for thoughts about relations with the land and its settlement. By following the Indian trail through these novels, this author’s way of writing fiction can be analyzed so as to be of interest to an anthropology of fiction and to the latter’s place in the set of “symbolic productions” whereby mankind presents itself for study and for understanding the world. Through the pages of Faulkner’s novels, reflexions emerge about a foundation that overreaches itself in a never ending return toward the question of origins, of the genesis and of settlements.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Aude Lalande, “L’impossible de la fondation”L’Homme, 166 | 2003, 31-58.

Electronic reference

Aude Lalande, “L’impossible de la fondation”L’Homme [Online], 166 | avril-juin 2003, Online since 08 September 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/217; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.217

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About the author

Aude Lalande

Université Paris-X, Laboratoire d’ethnologie et  de sociologie comparative, Nanterre.

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