Sartoris family

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fictional family literary character group

The Sartoris family is a prominent fictional Southern aristocratic lineage created by William Faulkner and featured in several of his Yoknapatawpha County novels.

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Label Occurrences
Sartoris family canonical 10

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional family ⓘ
literary character group ⓘ
appearsIn Flags in the Dust ⓘ
Go Down, Moses ⓘ
Knight’s Gambit ⓘ
Light in August ⓘ
Sartoris ⓘ
The Sound and the Fury ⓘ
The Unvanquished ⓘ
various Yoknapatawpha short stories ⓘ
associatedWith Jefferson (fictional town) ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
creator William Faulkner ⓘ
fictionalLocation Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ
fictionalState Mississippi ⓘ
firstAppearance Sartoris (cut version of Flags in the Dust) ⓘ
genre Southern Gothic ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ
hasMedium novel ⓘ
short story ⓘ
historicalEra American Civil War ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ
early 20th century American South ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
literaryMovement American modernism ⓘ
narrativeFunction representation of Old South values ⓘ
vehicle for multi-generational saga ⓘ
notableMember Bayard Sartoris ⓘ
Benbow family (by marriage) ⓘ
Colonel John Sartoris ⓘ
Drusilla ⓘ
surface form: Drusilla Hawk Sartoris

Miss Jenny Du Pre Sartoris ⓘ
Caddy Compson ⓘ
surface form: Narcissa Benbow Sartoris

Bayard Sartoris ⓘ
surface form: Young Bayard Sartoris
owns McCaslin plantation ⓘ
surface form: Sartoris plantation
partOf Yoknapatawpha saga ⓘ
surface form: Yoknapatawpha County saga
patriarch Colonel John Sartoris ⓘ
relatedFamily Compson family ⓘ
McCaslin family ⓘ
Snopes family ⓘ
settingType plantation household ⓘ
socialClass Southern aristocracy ⓘ
theme decline of Southern aristocracy ⓘ
honor and violence ⓘ
legacy and inheritance ⓘ
memory and history ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yoknapatawpha County → hasNotableFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Sartoris → featuresFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha saga → recurringFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Jefferson → hasNotableFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Flags in the Dust → focusesOnFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Flags in the Dust → hasProtagonistFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Snopes family → contrastedWith → Sartoris family ⓘ
Bayard Sartoris → associatedWithFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ
Miss Jenny Du Pre → familyAssociation → Sartoris family ⓘ
Flags in the Dust (restored text) → mainFamily → Sartoris family ⓘ