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Yoknapatawpha County

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Richard Reed has presented a detailed chronological analysis of Yoknapatawpha County. Charles S. Aiken has examined Faulkner's incorporation of real-life historical and geographical details into the overall presentation of the county. Aiken has further discussed the parallels of Yoknapatawpha County
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and Sartoris in the immediate vicinity of Jefferson. Later, the county became mostly small farms. By 1936, the population was 15,611, of which 6,298 were white and 9,313 were black.
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with the real-life Lafayette County, and also the representation of the "Upland South" and the "Lowland South" in Yoknapatawpha.
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was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern part of
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Aiken, Charles S. (January 1977). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: Geographical Fact into Fiction".
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Faulkner's imaginary county has inspired at least one other Mississippi author to follow his lead:
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Aiken, Charles S. (July 1979). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: A Place in the American South".
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twice for fiction. She drew upon Faulkner for Bois Sauvage, where she placed her three novels.
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Reed, Richard (Fall 1974). "The Role of Chronology in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Fiction".
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Audio of Yoknapatawpha pronunciation and translation from Chickasaw by Faulkner
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in the southeast, McCaslin in the northeast, Sutpen in the northwest, and
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audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land."
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land. European settlement started around the year 1800. Prior to the
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includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner.
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Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner
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Index

Jefferson, Mississippi

William Faulkner
/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/
fictional
Mississippi
William Faulkner
Lafayette County, Mississippi
Oxford
Sartoris
Pylon
The Wild Palms
A Fable
Absalom, Absalom!
Chickasaw
University of Virginia
Lafayette County
Flags in the Dust
Sartoris
Chickasaw
American Civil War
plantations
Grenier
Compson
Jesmyn Ward
National Book Award
False document
Fictional universe
"Faulkner at Virginia: Transcript of audio recording wfaudio01_1"
"The 100 best novels: No 55 – As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)"

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