Gateway to the Fantastical Faulkner:
"Pantaloon in Black" in the Development of Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses is one of Faulkner's works that, while categorizing and describing behavior in the Old South, proves to be an uncanny mélange of short stories characterizing some outlandish personalities and outlining superstitions of Southerners. While the first few stories (i.e. "Was" and "The Fire and the Hearth") do little to promote the supernatural undertones of the whole novel, "Pantaloon in Black" is the threshold that Faulkner fabricates in order to usher the reader into a world of supernatural and Native American-esque beliefs. A website called "Documenting the American South" says, "The most obvious feature distinguishing the South from the rest of the United States was its racial composition and the resulting historical developments provoked by profound sectional difference... Africans brought with them their myths and their music, their beliefs and their words." This is......
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