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

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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What film was Boris Karloff working on when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931)? Boris Karloff was working on Graft (1931), in which Karloff played a murderer, when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931). Whale spotted Karloff in the Universal…
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Who is the hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940)? The hero of Richard Wright's Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a black man from Chicago who murders a white woman and is executed for it.

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