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William Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha County
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After travel abroad and the publication of his second novel, Mosquitoes (1927), about bohemian life in New Orleans, Faulkner returned to Oxford, Miss., apparently on Anderson's advice, to begin a remarkable decade of writing. Sartoris (1929) was his first major exploration of Yoknapatawpha County, what he called his "little postage stamp of native soil," and he exploited it fictionally during the following 24 years, with occasional side trips.
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Faulkner was ... an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, Knight's Gambit, that featured Gavin Stevens, an attorney, wise to the ways of folk living in Yoknapatawpha County. He set many of his short stories and novels in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on--and nearly identical to in terms of geography--Lafayette County, of which his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi is the county seat; Yoknapatawpha was his very own "postage stamp" and it is considered to be one of the most monumetal fictional creations in the history of literature.
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Perhaps what made Faulkner's works so unique was the setting he created and used in the majority of them: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. From the abandoned plantation of Thomas Sutpen on the outskirts of Yoknapatawpha to Emily Grierson's house in Jefferson, the county seat of Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner created a world that typified the South in which he had grown up and in which he continued to live.
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American Memory has a rich collection of photographs of the Mississippi landscape that inspired Faulkner's fiction. To find similar images from the 1930s and 1940s, search the collection FSA/OWI Black and White Photographs, 1935-1945 on keywords such as cotton, sharecropper, tenant, or farmer, or browse the State Index on place names such as Mississippi--Lauderdale County.
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