Pantaloon in Black

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"Pantaloon in Black" is a short story by William Faulkner that forms part of his collection *Go Down, Moses*, exploring themes of grief, racial tension, and injustice in the American South.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story
author William Faulkner NERFINISHED
centralEvent death of protagonist's wife
collectionFirstPublicationYear 1942
collectionPublication Go Down, Moses NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts lynching
racially biased justice system
explores African American experience in the Jim Crow South
white legal and social power structures
genre Southern Gothic NERFINISHED
modernist fiction
hasCharacter Rider NERFINISHED
Rider's wife
white jailers
white sheriff
hasForm prose fiction
includedIn collected editions of William Faulkner's short fiction
language English
literaryDevice nonlinear recollection
stream-of-consciousness elements
symbolism
literaryMovement modernism
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalPublicationCentury 20th century
originalPublicationDecade 1940s
partOf Go Down, Moses NERFINISHED
protagonist Rider NERFINISHED
protagonistEthnicity African American NERFINISHED
protagonistGender male
publisherOfCollection Random House NERFINISHED
relatedAuthorWork Absalom, Absalom! NERFINISHED
The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED
relatedWork Go Down, Moses NERFINISHED
setIn Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED
settingRegion American South NERFINISHED
settingState Mississippi NERFINISHED
theme alienation
criminal justice
grief
injustice
mourning
racial tension
racism
social inequality
violence
tone somber
tragic
workInSeries Yoknapatawpha County stories NERFINISHED

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Go Down, Moses hasPart Pantaloon in Black
Go Down, Moses notableStory Pantaloon in Black
McCaslin family appearsInWork Pantaloon in Black