Yoknapatawpha County

Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county ( County) in the U.S. state of Mississippi, is the scene of most of the novels and short stories of Nobel laureate William Faulkner. Model for Yoknapatawpha County was the Lafayette County in the same U.S. state.

Location

1946 made ​​for Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley anthology The Portable Faulkner, a map of the county, which is often with printed today in the aforementioned novels.

Yoknapatawpha County is in the northwest of the American state of Mississippi. It covers 2400 square miles ( 6215 km ²) and is bordered to the north by the (real) Tallahatchie River, the south by the (fictitious ) Flux Yoknapatawpha. The eastern half and the south-western corner of the county is covered by pine forests, hills, and the rest is used for agriculture.

History

The area was originally the settlement area of the Chickasaw Indians. The name derives, according to Faulkner Yoknapatawpha of the Chickasaw words Yocona and petopha from. Yocona is a real river, petopha means " divided country ", and the compound according Yoknapatawpha Faulkner " water that flows slowly through the plane ".

From about 1800, the area was settled by whites. Until the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, a large part of the county was divided into large plantations. The plantation Louis Grenier was in the south-east, that of the Sutpen family in the northwest, and the families of the Compton and Sartoris close to the county town Jefferson City in the center of Yoknapatawpha County; after the war they lost incurred a large part of their land and many small farms. 1936, Yoknapatawpha County 15 611 inhabitants, of whom 6,298 white and 9,313 were black.

Novels

The following novels are wholly or mainly in Yoknapatawpha County:

  • Sartoris (1929 )
  • Sound and the Fury (1929 )
  • As I Lay Dying ( 1930)
  • The Sanctuary (1931 )
  • Light in August (1932 )
  • Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
  • The Undefeated (1938 )
  • The Village (1940 )
  • Go Down, Moses (1942 )
  • Intruder in the Dust (1948 )
  • The City (1957 )
  • The House ( 1959)
  • The Rogues (1962 )
  • Flags in the Dust ( longer version of Sartoris, 1973)
County (United States) Lafayette County (Mississippi) The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying (novel) Sanctuary (Faulkner novel)
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