Cabins on Outskirts of Jefferson in As I Lay Dying (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2014-08-13 15:03
Text: 
As I Lay Dying
Location Key: 
Cabins on Outskirts of Jefferson
Display Label: 
Negro Cabins
Map Icon: 
Cabin
Authority : 
Text (when unambiguous)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"Two Soldiers"
X: 
1250
Y: 
920
Description: 

This icon represents the several "negro cabins" that border the road into Jefferson "on either hand" (229). When the people who live in them smell the corpse and appear as "white-eyed" faces that come "suddenly to the doors," the novel includes the black population of Yoknapatawpha for the first time. It is presumably in this section that the "three negroes" who pass the wagon also live (229).

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Negro-occupied Cabin

Home of Characters

Unnamed Town Negroes

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