Out of Faulkner's novels, the novels that are most like Light in August, in that they are concerned with the legacy of slavery, racial passing, and white responsibility for the institution of slavery, are Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Of Faulkner's novels that utilize manipulations of time and stream-of-consciousness, The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying offer the best examples of Faulkner's stylism.
Other Southern writers of note who were either contemporaries of Faulkner's or who have written extensively on the legacy of slavery in the South are Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, Stephen Crane, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Chesnutt, and Maya Angelou.
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