The rich history behind Faulkner's imagined world 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 region, the experiences of secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction, town life in Oxford, and the Revolt of the Rednecks Faulkner captured in his saga of the Snopes clan. Drawing on both history and literature, Doyle renders a rich and deeply researched portrait of Faulkner's home. Yoknapatawpha was a place of the imagination, invented by Faulkner as a vehicle for developing a coherent body of fiction, Doyle writes, but the raw materials from which he created this place and its people lay right at his front porch.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-13
9780807849316
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95439341
Product Key Features
Author
DON H. Doyle
Publication Name
Faulkner's County: the Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
DON H. Doyle
Topic
Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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