Yoknapatawpha saga

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The Yoknapatawpha saga is William Faulkner’s interconnected cycle of novels and stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, exploring the history, culture, and moral conflicts of the American South.

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instanceOf fictional universe
literary cycle
author William Faulkner
countryOfFictionalSetting United States
creatorAward Nobel Prize in Literature (William Faulkner, 1949)
explores conflict between tradition and modernity
legacy of slavery in the American South
post-Civil War social change
genre Southern Gothic
modernist literature
hasPart Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Flags in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
Sanctuary
Sartoris
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
stories in "Doctor Martino and Other Stories"
stories in "Go Down, Moses"
stories in "Knight’s Gambit"
stories in "These 13"
inspiredBy Lafayette County, Mississippi NERFINISHED
language English
literarySignificance central to 20th-century American literature
mainTheme class conflict
family legacy
history of the American South
memory and time
moral conflict
race relations
narrativeTechnique multiple narrators
nonlinear chronology
stream of consciousness
notableWorkWithin Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
recurringCharacter Dilsey Gibson
Flem Snopes
Gavin Stevens
Quentin Compson
Thomas Sutpen
recurringFamily Compson family
McCaslin family
Sartoris family
Snopes family
Sutpen family
recurringLocation Jefferson
regionOfFictionalSetting American South
setIn Yoknapatawpha County
timeSpanOfFictionalEvents early 19th century to mid-20th century

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