Yoknapatawpha County

Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional area of Mississippi that William Faulkner invented to make as a setting for almost all of his texts.
Wikipedia - "Yoknapatawpha County, pronounced [jɒknəpəˈtɔfə] is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, 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'. From Sartoris onwards, Faulkner would set all but four of his novels in the county (Soldiers' Pay, Pylon, The Wild Palms and A Fable were set elsewhere), as well as over 50 of his stories. Absalom, Absalom! includes a map of Yoknapatawpha County drawn by Faulkner. 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. ..."
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William Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha County
People, Places, and Events: A Faulkner Glossary
amazon: Yoknapatawpha, Images and Voices: A Photographic Study of Faulkner’s County

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