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It is located in northwestern Mississippi and its Seat is the town of Jefferson. 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 Mi&2 (6,200 Km&2 ). Most of the eastern half (as well as a small part of the southwest corner) of the county is pine hill country. The word ''Yoknapatawpha'' is pronounced "Yok'na pa TAW pha." It is derived from two Chickasaw words—''Yocona'' and ''petopha'', meaning "split land." The compound word, however, according to Faulkner, means "water flowing slow through the flatland." ''Yoknapatawpha'' was the original name for the actual Yocona River , which runs through the southern part of Lafayette County , of which Oxford is the seat. The area was originally '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 15,611, of which 6,298 were whites and 9,313 were black. Stories set in Yoknapatawpha County
The play '' Requiem For A Nun '' (1951) is also set in Yoknapatawpha County. |
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