McCaslin plantation

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fictional location fictional plantation literary setting

McCaslin plantation is the fictional Southern estate in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County that serves as a central locus for exploring themes of race, inheritance, and history in his works.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Sartoris plantation 1
Shelby plantation 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location ⓘ
fictional plantation ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ
appearsIn Delta Autumn NERFINISHED ⓘ
Go Down, Moses NERFINISHED ⓘ
Go Down, Moses (title story) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pantaloon in Black NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Fire and the Hearth NERFINISHED ⓘ
The Old People NERFINISHED ⓘ
Was ⓘ
associatedCharacter Buck McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Buddy McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Carothers McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ike McCaslin NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lucas Beauchamp NERFINISHED ⓘ
Roth Edmonds NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tomey’s Turl NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedFamily Edmonds family NERFINISHED ⓘ
McCaslin family NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfAuthor United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
createdBy William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre Southern Gothic setting ⓘ
modernist American fiction setting ⓘ
hasHistoricalBackstory antebellum slave plantation ⓘ
post–Civil War transformation ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
locatedIn Yoknapatawpha County NERFINISHED ⓘ
fictional Mississippi county ⓘ
narrativeFunction central locus for exploring race and inheritance ⓘ
site of multigenerational family saga ⓘ
symbol of the Southern plantation system ⓘ
partOf Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ
Yoknapatawpha saga NERFINISHED ⓘ
symbolizes burden of the Southern past ⓘ
intertwined black and white lineages ⓘ
moral cost of slavery ⓘ
theme Southern history ⓘ
family history ⓘ
guilt ⓘ
inheritance ⓘ
land ownership ⓘ
memory ⓘ
miscegenation ⓘ
race ⓘ
racial injustice ⓘ
slavery ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

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

Go Down, Moses → hasSettingElement → McCaslin plantation ⓘ
Aunt Chloe → associatedWith → McCaslin plantation ⓘ
this entity surface form: Shelby plantation
McCaslin family → hasEstate → McCaslin plantation ⓘ
Sartoris family → owns → McCaslin plantation ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sartoris plantation