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Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by the American author William Faulkner, based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county". From ''Sartoris'' onwards, Faulkner would set all but three of his novels in the county (''Pylon'', ''The Wild Palms'' and ''A Fable'' were set elsewhere). Faulkner added a map of Yoknapatawpha County at the end of ''Absalom, Absalom!''〔(A Faulkner Glossary: Yoknapatawpha County Map. )(William Faukner on the Web )〕 Contemporary scholars are attempting to map the locations of all Faulkner's fiction. The word ''Yoknapatawpha'' is pronounced ("Yok'na pa TAW pha"). It is derived from two Chickasaw words—''Yocona'' and ''petopha'', meaning "split land." Faulkner claimed to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means "water flows slow through flat land."〔(Audio of Yoknapatawpha pronunciation and translation from Chickasaw by Falkner )〕 ''Yoknapatawpha'' was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern part of Lafayette County,〔(Yocona River. ) (The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), ) (U.S. Geological Service )〕 of which Oxford is the seat. The area was originally Chickasaw land. White settlement started around the year 1800. Prior to the Civil War, the county consisted of several large plantations: Louis Grenier's in the southeast, McCaslin's in the northeast, Sutpen's in the northwest, and Compson's and Sartoris's in the immediate vicinity of Jefferson. Later, the county became mostly small farms. By 1936, the population was 25,611, of which 6,298 were white and 19,313 were black. ==Novels and story cycles set in Yoknapatawpha County== In terms of internal chronology: * ''The Unvanquished'' (1938) * ''The Hamlet'' (1940) * ''The Reivers'' (1962) * ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936) * ''Sartoris'' (1929) * ''The Town'' (1957) * "Old Man" (1939), published in ''If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem'' * ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1929) * "A Rose for Emily" (1930) * ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930) * ''Sanctuary'' (1931) * ''Light in August'' (1932) * ''Requiem for a Nun'' (1951) * ''Go Down, Moses'' (1942) * ''Intruder in the Dust'' (1948) * ''Knight's Gambit'' (1949) * ''The Mansion'' (1959) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoknapatawpha County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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