Faulkner's County The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha

Name: Faulkner's County The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha
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ISBN: 9780807849316

ISBN-10: 0807849316

ISBN-13: 9780807849316

Edition: 2001

Authors: Don H. Doyle

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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 Lafayette County reverses that notion, using Faulkner's rich fictional portrait of a place and its people to illuminate the past. From the arrival of Europeans in Chickasaw Indian territory in 1540 to Faulkner's death in 1962, Don Doyle chronicles more than four centuries of local history. He traces the building of a permanent community and plantation economy by white settlers, the lives of slaves in the…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 0.506

Don H. Doyle, McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, is author of Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha.



Preface


Introduction: Listen, Stranger



Yoknapatawpha



Genesis



Communities



The Slaves



Revolution



War



The Vanquished



Another War



Rednecks



The Town


Epilogue: What Was, Is


Notes


Selected Readings


Index