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About Absalom, Absalom!: Chapter-by-Chapter Chronology

  1. Rationale
  2. A Pair of Warnings
  3. Using the Chronology

Cumulative Location Search

Location Name: this is the unique name DY assigns to a location, which Faulkner may name or refer to with more than one name. For example, Jefferson’s Drugstore appears in 14 texts, variously as Drugstore, Drugstore|Music Store, Christian’s Drugstore, West’s Drugstore and, once, Jefferson Drugstore. All these names are included in the Cumulative Location entry that the engine will return.

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Unnamed Negro Infant

This infant, described only as "a baby, a few months old" (84), is in the arms of the self-emancipated mother whom Rosa and her party meet on their way to Hawkhurst.

Unnamed Negro Infant

This infant, described only as "a baby, a few months old" (41), is in the arms of the self-emancipated mother whom Rosa and her party meet on their way to Hawkhurst.

Unnamed Negro Infant in "Raid"|The Unvanquished

This infant, described only as "a baby, a few months old," is seen in the arms of the self-emancipated Negro whom Rosa and her party encounter on their way to Hawkhurst.

Jefferson Negro School in "There Was a Queen" (Location)

Isom 'corrects' his mother's statement about the distance between Yoknapatawpha and Carolina by telling her what he "learnt in school" (732). The segregated structures of Faulkner's South leave no doubt that this school is a Negro one, but Isom gives us no way to say where it is - or whether he still attends it.

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