William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: An Exegesis of the Homoerotic Configurations in the Novel

The published criticism of the novel has generally ignored the homo­ erotic component of Absalom, Absalom/; the first mention of the theme occurred in 1955 when Ilse Dusoir Lind wrote:

Shreve, whose youthful curiosity and romanticism make him a suitable collaborator in the Bon-Henry legend, projects the frater­ nal affection, mildly homosexual in basis, which exists between his roommate and himself.3