"Finding a Transgression Narrative Paradigm in Faulkner's Haunting and Rushdie's Mummification."

Psychologists Jennifer Lilgendahl, Kate McLean, and Cade Mansfield assert the need for a transgression narrative paradigm. They argue that paradigms allowing a reconciliation between the self and transgressions are hard to find because humans tend to minimize their objectionable actions. My article, "Finding a Transgression Narrative Paradigm in the Narratology of Faulkner's Haunting and Rushdie's Mummification," presents a cross-cultural examination of narrative techniques that deliver the paradigm for the elusive transgression narrative. Comparing the subaltern's experience presented in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children with the dominant class's experience typified in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! discovers the overlapping characteristics of trauma and transgression narratives and delivers a transgression narrative paradigm that helps transgressors move toward reconciliation.