Absalom, Absalom! (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1807-1910
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Segregation or integration, Family or family life, Genealogy, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Adultery
- Locales: Virginia, Haiti, Mississippi, West Virginia, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Places Discussed
Yoknapatawpha County (YOK-nuh-puh-TAW-fuh). Fictional county in northwestern Mississippi that Faulkner called his “little postage stamp of native soil.” By the time Faulkner wrote Absalom, Absalom! he had used this setting in five novels. For this novel, however, he drew a map of the county on which he identified places used in both this and the earlier novels. Faulkner gave the county an area of 2,400 square miles and a population of 6,298 white residents and 9,313 black residents. With the Tallahatchie River serving as the northern boundary, the...
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