Faulkner’s mixed-lineage families mirror the Caribbean’s extended-family social fabric

Evidence

In aIl of Faulkner’s work the pileup of patronyms, of mixings of blood whether forced or not, of double lineages (black and white), relentlessly reproduces and almost caricatures the extended family style that has so long contributed to the formation of the Caribbean social fabric. It is no accident that Sutpen, unknowingly at first, encountered his fate in Haiti. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 340

Categorization

• XREF: Links to Glissant’s creolization/rhizome identity argument against filiation-based Oedipal readings of society. — connects to: Shared parenting burdens spark cross-cultural conviviality in diverse communities. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 40

Broader Connections

• Shared parenting burdens spark cross-cultural conviviality in diverse communities. #corroborates (0.82) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 40