Who is the hero of William Faulkner’s Light in August (1932)?

July 17, 2020October 16, 2011 by Pamela Landy

The hero of William Faulkner’s Light in August is Joe Christmas.

He was a man believed to be part black, who murders a white woman named Joanna Burden and is castrated and killed for it.

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