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Go Down, Moses - Definition and Overview |
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Go Down, Moses is an episodic novel, by William Faulkner, consisting of a series of short stories. Originally published in 1942 as Go Down, Moses and Other stories, it spans more than 100 years in the history of the McCaslin family, it's plantation and the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. It deals with such issues as slavery and race, the relationship between man and nature, the vanishing wilderness, stewardship vs ownership of land, and property and inheritance.
The title refers to the "Negro spiritual" Go Down Moses, which draws the comparison between the enslavement of blacks in America and the Jews in Egypt.
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