Faulkner's Postmodernist Thought - Faulkner's Go, Moses

Go, Moses, is one of Faulkner's most prestigious works and an important part of the "Joknapatafa Lineage."

In his unique way, the author integrates more than a hundred years of the history of the McCaslin family, and by comparing the members and development of the two branches of the family, white and black, the author points out that the reason for the destruction of Southern society is that southern whites have lost the ability to love, and the rebirth of Southern society hopes for southern blacks with the ability to love.

The novel consists of seven relatively independent and interconnected novellas, which are like seven planets, each constituting a small universe, through the connection of tangible and intangible, wired and wireless, forming a large universe, containing many mysteries that add value to each other.

This novel is considered the most difficult to understand, and on the surface, the structure of the novel is not as tight as other novels, and the storyline seems to lack close connection.

But if we look at the relationship between "opposition and unity", which has always existed in the novel, we will find that the arrangement of the seven stories is not out of order, nor is it unrelated, but presents a pattern of "story combination".

The portrayal of the negro in the novel is tenacious, and although exploited, he still tenaciously pursues freedom and realizes his dreams; the relationship between the black and the white depicted in the novel is as close as brotherhood, and the author expresses his optimism about racial issues.

"Go, Moses" is the name of the black hymn, which Faulkner uses as the title of the novel, achieving the purpose of reinforcing the personality characteristics of black people with the theme of the hymn, and is also the result of in-depth thinking about the relationship between character building and black culture.

Before the 1950s, postmodernism did not receive widespread attention. But from this work, we can see the postmodernist ideas expressed by Faulkner as a modernist writer.

Considering the contradictory relationship between Faulkner and postmodernism in the postmodern context, the relationship between the two will become tense, and multiple interpretations can be carried out, and multiple meanings will be acquired.

This is because the essence of postmodernism is a way of thinking that can be interpreted multiple times, and this will spread infinitely to the space of interpretation, so that the novel will gain strong vitality and have great literary value.