Faulkner's county : the historical roots of Yoknapatawpha /

Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the primary inspiration for what is arguably the most famous place in American fiction: William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner once explained that in his Yoknapatawpha stories he "sublimated the actual into the apocryphal." This history of...

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Main Author: Doyle, Don Harrison, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2001], ©2001
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2001
Chapel Hill : ©2001
Chapel Hill : c2001
Chapel Hill [N.C.] ; London : c2001
Chapel Hill : [2001]
Series:The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Yoknapatawpha 23
  • 2 Genesis 53
  • 3 Communities 87
  • 4 The Slaves 121
  • 5 Revolution 157
  • 6 War 187
  • 7 The Vanquished 215
  • 8 Another War 253
  • 9 Rednecks 291
  • 10 The Town 327
  • Epilogue: What Was, Is 373
  • Introduction: Listen, Stranger
  • 1 Yoknapatawpha
  • 2. Genesis
  • 3. Communities
  • 4. The Slaves
  • 5. Revolution
  • 6. War
  • 7. The Vanquished
  • 8. Another War
  • 9. Rednecks
  • 10. The Town
  • Epilogue: What Was, Is.