Narrative Instability And The Blurring Of Boundaries: A Postmodernist Reading Of 'The Sound And The Fury’

Abstract

World is progressing in a way to dissolve the realities in oblivion. Narratives defined by boundaries serve meanings no more. The Sound and The Fury naviagets through the same literary panes and a close focus on the concept of landscape reveals fragmentation of the aristocracy and identity of the South in Faulkner’s narrative which is written in the fragmented abolition of linearity. In a postmodern context, this paper examines the ways in which the author temporalisation, unreliable narration and symbolism deconstructs memory and history. Study further examines Faulkner’s portrayal of the theme of Southern values and locates the author’s work in postmodernism and historiographic metafiction debates. Through applying scholarly textual analysis together with theoretical ideas, this study proves that the novel remains important and continues to make a contribution to literary our understanding.