Happy Hour: Discovering Faulkner’s American South in 1990s Pakistan with Dr. Saima Sherazi
Livestream , United StatesThe 1990s found agrarian societies in Pakistan undergoing profound transitions, not unlike the American South in the first part of the twentieth century. William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” captures the stark confrontation between waning Southern aristocracy (the Compson family) and the ascendant middle class represented by the Snopes family.