The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy: Japan's Modernity, the American South, and Faulkner

The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy demonstrates how William Faulkner's fictional works, normally considered extremely complex and incomprehensible, can be thoroughly understood and explicated. The volume urges scholars of Faulkner, and literature in general, to liberate themselves from ideological bondage.