Borneo in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
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Location Key:
Display Label:
Borneo
Map Icon:
OutOfYoknapatawpha
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X:
2115
Y:
1376
Description:
Borneo is an island off the coast of southeast Asia. In Absalom! its fabled head-hunters provide a metaphorical point-of-reference: Clytemnestra's "body just grew smaller and smaller like something being shrunk in a furnace, like the Bornese do their captured heads" (175).
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Only Mentioned in Text
Status:
Continuous
Types:
Foreign Country
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