Asia (Location Key)

While various Asian locations appear in the canon as early as Flags in the Dust, the continent itself is only mentioned once, when The Mansion, Faulkner's penultimate novel, describes how the world grew darker during the late 1930s, as events carried it toward a second World War - or as V.K. Ratliff puts it, "we watched the lights go out in Spain and Ethiopia, the darkness that was going to creep eastward across all Europe and Asia too" (198).