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Author: William Faulkner
First Published: 1929
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Stream of consciousness
Time of Work: 1900-1928
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, South or Southerners, Brothers and sisters, 1910’s, 1920’s, Incest, Mississippi, Moral conditions, Illegitimacy, Small-town life, Tragedy, Mental retardation
Locales: Cambridge, MA, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)

Yoknapatawpha County (YOK-nuh-puh-TAW-fuh). Beginning with his third novel, William Faulkner set a great deal of his fiction in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner drew this county for a map included in his novel Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He included details about plot events and where they occurred. The county is named after a river in Mississippi and the Native American word Yoknapatawpha. The details make it clear that it corresponds to Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner lived in the town of Oxford, called Jefferson in his fiction....

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