Yoknapatawpha County - Wikipedia Yoknapatawpha County From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner Map drawn by William Faulkner for The Portable Faulkner (1946) Yoknapatawpha County (/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/) is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi (which Faulkner renamed Jefferson). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county." Contents 1 Overview 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Overview[edit] From Sartoris onwards, Faulkner set all but three of his novels in the county (Pylon, The Wild Palms and A Fable were set elsewhere), as well as over 50 of his stories.[1] Absalom, Absalom! includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner.[2] The word Yoknapatawpha is derived from two Chickasaw words—Yocona and petopha, meaning "split land." Faulkner said to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land." Yoknapatawpha was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern part of Lafayette County. The area was originally Chickasaw land. White settlement started around the year 1800. Prior to the American Civil War, the county consisted of several large plantations. By family surname, they were: Grenier in the southeast, McCaslin in the northeast, Sutpen in the northwest, and Compson 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.[3] Richard Reed has presented a detailed chronological analysis of Yoknapatawpha County.[1] Charles S. Aiken has examined Faulkner's incorporation of real-life historical and geographical details into the overall presentation of the county.[4] Aiken has further discussed the parallels of Yoknapatawpha County with the real-life Lafayette County, and also the representation of the "Upland South" and the "Lowland South" in Yoknapatawpha.[5] Faulkner's imaginary county has inspired at least one other Mississippi author to follow his lead. Jesmyn Ward, who is the only woman to win the National Book Award twice for fiction,[6] drew upon Faulkner for Bois Savage, where she placed her three novels.[7] See also[edit] List of fictional counties False document Fictional universe References[edit] ^ a b Reed, Richard (Fall 1974). "The Role of Chronology in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha Fiction". The Southern Literary Journal. 7 (1): 24–48. JSTOR 20077502. ^ Hamblin, Robert. "Faulkner's Map of Yoknapatawpha: The End of Absalom, Absalom!". Center for Faulkner Studies. ^ Faulkner, William (1936). "Yoknapatawpha, in Absalom ! Absalom !". ^ Aiken, Charles S. (January 1977). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: Geographical Fact into Fiction". Geographical Review. 67 (1): 1–21. doi:10.2307/213600. JSTOR 213600. ^ Aiken, Charles S. (July 1979). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: A Place in the American South". Geographical Review. 69 (3): 331–48. doi:10.2307/214889. JSTOR 214889. ^ Canfield, David. "Jesmyn Ward Wins National Book Award for 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'". Nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2018. ^ Begley, Sarah. "Jesmyn Ward, Heir to Faulkner, Probes the Specter of Race In the South". Time.com. Retrieved December 13, 2018. External links[edit] Digital Yoknapatawpha Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive A Faulkner Glossary: Yoknapatawpha County Map William Faukner on the Web The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project Audio of Yoknapatawpha pronunciation and translation from Chickasaw by Faulkner v t e William Faulkner Bibliography Novels Soldiers' Pay (1926) Mosquitoes (1927) Sartoris / Flags in the Dust (1929 / 1973) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Sanctuary (1931) Light in August (1932) Pylon (1935) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) The Unvanquished (1938) If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939) The Hamlet (1940) Go Down, Moses (1942) Intruder in the Dust (1948) Requiem for a Nun (1951) A Fable (1954) The Town (1957) The Mansion (1959) The Reivers (1962) Short story collections These 13 (1931) Knight's Gambit (1949) Collected Stories (1950) Short stories "Landing in Luck" (1919) "A Rose for Emily" (1930) "Red Leaves" (1930) "Dry September" (1931) "Spotted Horses" (1931) "That Evening Sun" (1931) "Mountain Victory" (1932) "Barn Burning" (1939) "The Tall Men" (1941) "Shingles for the Lord" (1943) Screenplays Flesh (1932) Today We Live (1933) Submarine Patrol (1938) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sleep (1945) Children's books The Wishing Tree (1927) Related William Clark Falkner (great-grandfather) Rowan Oak home Papers and manuscripts William Faulkner Foundation Yoknapatawpha County Compson family Louis Grenier Ikkemotubbe Gavin Stevens Thomas Sutpen Snopes trilogy Southern Renaissance Faux Faulkner contest PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yoknapatawpha_County&oldid=997748132" Categories: Fictional counties William Faulkner Fictional populated places in Mississippi Fictional elements introduced in 1929 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Català Deutsch Español فارسی Français Italiano 日本語 Polski Русский Српски / srpski Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Suomi Українська 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 2 January 2021, at 01:28 (UTC). 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