“The Nature of Race in Faulkner’s South” - Dr. Glenn Arbery

On February 27, 2026, Dr. Glenn Arbery concluded our Valor Institute retreat on William Faulkner’s Absalom,Absalom! with an honest examination of racial prejudice as depicted in Faulkner’s fiction as well as the wider American literary tradition. Looking back as far as William Shakespeare’s Othello, Dr. Arbery explored how racial distinction has been made to turn persons into “others” cut off from our own humanity.

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