It's the same everywhere. There's lots of good Canadian novels, but high schools here prefer to teach the ones that are all misery and pain.

Faulkner later on turned into a really good novelist -- once he left behind the modernist bullcrap and had something interesting to say. I think everyone should read Light in August. I can see wanting to teach him as an American novelist in American schools, but why couldn't they have used something more interesting?

Maybe it's because The Sound and the Fury is too incomprehensible to be controversial. I've caught vague references to rape, incest, and male prostitution in it, and that's pretty typical of Faulkner, but if no one knows what the hell's going on, parents can't complain.