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	Chuck Lamar Bio
		As Sheriff of Yoknapatawpha County for the past 12 years and a member of the Sheriff's department since 1974, Charles "Chuck" Lamar knows first hand, the tragic results of crime - the agony suffered by victims.
		Born and raised in Yoknapatawpha County, Charles "Chuck" James Lamar was born February 2, 1950 to Willard and Ollie Lamar.
		He joined the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's office in 1974 as a Deputy serving on the force until his election as Sheriff in 1985.
	www.crimescene.com /macy/lamar_bio.html (437 words)

	WFotW ~ Faulkner Glossary: "Y"
		It is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River (an actual river in Mississippi) and its southern boundary is the Yoknapatawpha River.
		The name "Yoknapatawpha" is apparently derived from two Chickasaw words: Yocona and petopha, meaning "split land." According to some sources, that was the original name for the Yocona River, also an actual river running through southern Lafayette County.
		Yoknapatawpha River: The southern boundary of Yoknapatawpha County, and apparently based on the actual Yocona River in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryy.html (620 words)

	Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, by Don H. Doyle. Introduction.
		When Lafayette County sent its men to war in 1861, they were told they were fighting for the altars and hearths of their loved ones at home.
		Whatever one can say for Lafayette County as a representative case study, let me hasten to admit that the real reason I chose it was that William Faulkner chose it before me. Lafayette County was the primary source for what is the most famous imaginary place in American literature: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
		Yoknapatawpha was a place of the imagination, invented by Faulkner as a vehicle for developing a coherent body of fiction, but the raw materials from which he created this place and its people lay right at his front porch.
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/chapters/doyle_faulkners.html (8752 words)

	Yoknapatawpha County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels.
		Yoknapatawpha County is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River and on the south by the Yoknapatawpha River and has an area of 2,400 mi² (6,200 km²).
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoknapatawpha_County (268 words)

	Alain Desvergnes
		Born in Périgord, France in 1931, Alain Desvergnes came to the Unites States in the sixties to teach photography at Ole Mississippi University.
		It was here that he read the works of William Faulkner, and fell in love with Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
		Inspired by Faulkner's words, Desvergnes sought to photograph Yoknapatawpha County, documenting both its beauty and its sorrow, which was visually unknown in Europe.
	www.edelmangallery.com /desvergnes.htm (291 words)

	The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Have You Been to Yoknapatawpha County?
		Yoknapatawpha County was the creation of this 20th century Southern author, and most of the novels and stories he wrote throughout his career are set in this mythical place in Mississippi, Faulkner's birthplace.
		Although this county geographically defined his work, his themes were universal in scope, and his style ushered in an era of experimental writing in America.
		Faulkner was born in 1897 and died in 1962.
	www.loc.gov /wiseguide/sept06/county.html (240 words)

	CliffsNotes::Faulkner's Short Stories:Book Summary and Study Guide
		The county of Yoknapatawpha and its county seat of Jefferson are based on the real county of Jefferson, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford.
		The aristocracy of Yoknapatawpha County is represented by Colonel John Sartoris and his family, the General Jason Compson family, Major de Spain, and the Griersons.
		He returns to Yoknapatawpha County and organizes his own troop of “irregulars.” As the leader of this troop, he becomes somewhat of an instant legend; he seems to be always in the local vicinity or in the neighboring land, protecting the women and children left defenseless while their menfolk are off fighting.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-110,pageNum-3.html (637 words)

	faulknerbio
		Clearly it is more sensible to see Yoknapatawpha County and its people as a little self-contained world of the imagination than as an accurate history, from the time of the Chickasaw Indians down to the present, of northern Mississippi.
		Yoknapatawpha County is an area of 2400 square miles, with a population of 15,611 persons.
		The southerner, the resident of Yoknapatawpha County, carries his burden of guilt, his part in the troubled and painful heritage that began with slavery, and he responds to it in his individual way.
	www.smccd.net /accounts/lawlor/faulknerbio.htm (12256 words)

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		Frenchman's Bend: A small rural settlement in southeastern Yoknapatawpha County, located on the Yoknapatawpha River, twenty miles southeast of Jefferson, in the county division known as "Beat Two." It is the area indicated by the title of The Hamlet, where it is described as "a section of rich river-bottom country...
		Okatoba County: The county directly south of Yoknapatawpha County, whose county seat is Mottstown, based on the real Yalobusha County, Mississippi, which is south of the western half of Lafayette County (the principal model for Yoknapatawpha County).
		Yoknapatawpha County: Pronounced "Yok nuh puh TAW fuh." A county in northern Mississippi, the setting for most of William Faulkner's novels and short stories, and patterned upon Faulkner's actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
	www.nprime.net /aeonsociety/trinity/settings/sett0004.html (5759 words)

	The Curse & The Hope -- Friday, Jul. 17, 1964 -- Page 3 -- TIME
		Yoknapatawpha County and the town of Jefferson resemble closely the Oxford, Miss., area where Faulkner was born in 1897.
		(Yoknapatawpha was the original Indian name of the river that runs past Oxford.) Many of its inhabitants, including most of the principal characters of his novels, are closely drawn from his family, his acquaintances, his ancestors.
		But Yoknapatawpha County is far more than antiquarianism and an exercise in skirting the law of libel: it is a looking glass of magical power to enable the patient viewer to see the South whole.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,875965-3,00.html (735 words)

	THE GHOST TOWNS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER by Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren
		Such are the non-fictitious ghost towns of William Faulkner's mystical Yoknapatawpha County -- which, by tradition, is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River, and to the South by the Yocona (patawpha) River.
		In 1836, shortly after the formation of Panola County (a county in North West Mississippi, 23 miles to the west of Faulkner's home), two Chickasaw Indians (Chil-li-tah-umby and Ish-she-un-nah) sold a portion of land to three white settlers (Deed Book #1, 80-81, 1836).
		Earlier, during the creation of Panola County, the legislature had authorized that the Board of Police should have the legal right and responsibility of creating a seat of justice or county seat.
	users.panola.com /AAGHS/ARTICLES/FAULKNER.html (3844 words)

	William Faulkner - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Particularly in his later works, Faulkner stressed man's power to prevail over evil and decay and to find new values when the traditional ones have failed.
		In the novel Sartoris Faulkner introduced a fictional territory in Mississippi called Yoknapatawpha County, which was closely modeled on the author’s own county of Lafayette.
		This book arranged excerpts from Faulkner’s novels into a chronological sequence that gave the entire Yoknapatawpha saga a new clarity.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557215___3/William_Faulkner.html (604 words)

	Southern Roots
		The county has two main roads, both intersecting the town of Oxford, which is situated fairly close to the middle of the region.
		The county was full of thickets and swamps, forest and fl bottom land, and sand hills covered with scrub pine.
		The layout of the real Lafayette County became, in Faulkner's imagination, the basic outline of Yoknapatawpha County: the same rectangular space divided by roads, rivers, and a railroad into four quadrants, divided further by diagonal secondary roads, with Oxford/Jefferson placed in the center.
	lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/faulknersite/faulknersite/sroots/roots.html (851 words)

	Faulkner, William (Cuthbert) Criticism and Essays
		But only in a superficial sense can Faulkner be considered a regional writer: through their radical stylistic innovations and moral depth his works achieve a universality which places him among the major figures of world literature.
		Sartoris is considered by many to be the first "typical Faulkner novel," primarily because it is set in Yoknapatawpha County and displays a full array of storytelling techniques, but also for the tragic fate of its protagonist, Bayard Sartoris.
		Even in isolation from his novels, Faulkner's short fiction provides the complete chronological development of Yoknapatawpha from the coming of white men, who introduced the concept of private property, up to the twentieth century, when the automobile becomes a common fixture in American society.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/faulkner-william-cuthbert (1382 words)

	Marvel World Order's Official Homepage
		Whatever the outcome of the race, citizens of Yoknapatawpha county will remember the tenure of Sheriff Chuck Lamar as one of both violence and peace, and they say his service to the county through good times and bad is commendable under the weight he has had to bear.
		Lamar and Mazza are battling for the post of Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff, in a race in which more mundane campaign issues have been overshadowed by the disappearance of Lamar's daughter, Macy, and the escape from sheriff's custody of suspected rapist Anthony Phelps and suspected murderer Edward Pierce.
		One voice that hasn't been heard lately in the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's election is that of Caroline Blanchard, the estranged wife of incumbent Chuck Lamar.
	members.tripod.com /~MWOVENOM/index-16.html (2238 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00047951
		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.
		"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."
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/unc041/00047951.html (257 words)

	Louis Grenier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He bought land in the southeastern part of Yoknapatawpha County and established the first cotton plantation and had the first slaves in that part of the state.
		His last descendant was known as Lonnie Grinnup, a feeble-minded man in his middle thirties sometime around the first quarter of the twentieth century, although his real name was the same as that of his first Yoknapatawpha County ancestor.
		Louis Grenier appears in Requiem for a Nun and is referred to in Intruder in the Dust, "Hand Upon the Waters," The Town, and The Reivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Grenier (224 words)

	William Faulkner: How His Life Affected His Work
		Yoknapatawpha County Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional place after William Faulkner’s own Lafayette County.
		The town of Jefferson is within Yoknapatawpha County and is the fictional equivalent of Oxford, Faulkner’s home town.
		In the short story “Barn Burning,” Faulkner uses his familiar Yoknapatawpha County, and in “A Rose for Emily,” his town of Jefferson.
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=101057 (269 words)

	"Exercises in Doom..."
		The first Yoknapatawpha wedding is that of Caddy Compson, Faulkner's "heart's darling." The event is dominated by the tragedy inherent in the conflict between appearance and reality that is a major theme in The Sound and the Fury.
		Paradoxically, the only Yoknapatawpha wedding that takes place inside a church, it is the most terrifying, and, as Miss Rosa probably would have characterized it, the most demonic, of the weddings Faulkner presents.
		But in her case, neither that fact, nor the fact that she once briefly might have imagined herself to be in love with Sutpen, does not mean that her wedding is not also symbolic of sterility.
	www.geocities.com /lrampey/doom.htm (3150 words)

	Yoknapatawpha County and "Cracker Culture" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Scots in Yoknapatawpha avoid much of the "progress" and "development" much as their Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestors did by settling in especially inaccessible regions (though it might also be argued that modern development avoided them).
		The short story "Victory", which deals with the socio-economic ascent and fall of the son of a Glaswegian shipbuilder's son, seems to be a sort of warning against Southerners with Scottish roots from aspiring to English or Yankee wealth and respectability.
		Three of the major aristocratic families in Yoknapatawpha are of identifiably Scottish stock; the Compsons, the Sutpens, and the McCaslins.
	www.isc.senshu-u.ac.jp /~thb0559/No7/MacQuarrie2005.htm (3170 words)

	Teaching Faulkner, Southeast Missouri State University
		Through the handwritten entries that Faulkner made, the landscape of Yoknapatawpha is presented primarily as a setting for grief, villainy, and death.
		Counties merge into states, states into nations, nations into continents, continents into hemispheres and worlds, and so on outward through the cosmos.
		Faulkner's map of Yoknapatawpha is the artistic equivalent of the historical Sutpen's Hundred.
	www.semo.edu /cfs/teaching/index_4817.htm (1794 words)

	WILLIAM FAULKNER'S YOKNAPATAWPHA - Dr. Carl Edwin Lindgren
		In fact, it was here that he sketched the outline for A Fable on the walls of an upstairs backroom, and here that he tried (with only moderate success) to avoid the publicity and attention accorded a Nobel Laureate.
		William Faulkner's mythic county is bounded on the north by the
		And if, just a mile or so down the road, one pulls to the side, rolls down the window, closes ones eyes and listens, one just may hear the dust-softened voice of a farmer as he coaxes his tired mule to plow just one more row before sunset.
	users.panola.com /lindgren/FAULKNER.html (818 words)

	Lafayette County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lafayette County is one of 82 counties in Mississippi.
		The county is in the Oxford metro area.
		This was an increase of 5.16% from the 2000 census.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19905 (429 words)

	SparkNotes: As I Lay Dying: Context
		In As I Lay Dying, Faulkner first introduces Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional rendition of his native Lafayette County, Mississippi, which became the setting for most of his best-known works.
		The novels set in Yoknapatawpha County can even be read as one intricate story, in which the same places, events, families, and people turn up over and over again.
		The complexity and sophistication of the Yoknapatawpha novels changed many of these perceptions, and it is largely due to Faulkner’s influence that the South is now recognized as one of the country’s most fertile literary regions.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/asilay/context.html (688 words)

	Faulkner
		Faulkner's principal setting is Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional domain loosely based upon places and subjects near to him in his youth.
		Although Oxford, Miss., was in some ways rural, it was also the seat of the state university, the county government, and the federal district court, and it had ties to major cultural centers.
		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.
	gatewayno.com /culture/Faulkner.html (726 words)

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