Unnamed Mother of Boon Hogganbeck

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Unnamed Mother of Boon Hogganbeck
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Unnamed Mother of Boon Hogganbeck
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Boon Hogganbeck's "mother's mother" was a "Chickasaw woman" (91). Boon and his Chickasaw grandmother are mentioned in a number of Faulkner texts, but the only mention of his mother in the fictions is the passing acknowledgment paid her in this phrase in Intruder in the Dust. From the other texts, however, we can safely infer that she - and her never mentioned father, and Boon's never mentioned father - were white.