Ikkemotubbe

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2017-11-22 09:43
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Character Key: 
Ikkemotubbe
Display Name: 
Ikkemotubbe
Sort Name: 
Ikkemotubbe
AKA: 
Doom
Race: 
Indian
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Indian Chief
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Issetibbeha|Ikkemotubbe
Family (new): 
IkkemotubbesInAA
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Courtship"
"A Justice"
"A Name for the City"
"Appendix: Compson"
"Red Leaves"
"The Bear"
"The Old People"
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Reivers
The Town
Biography: 

In Absalom!, the narrator identifies the Chickasaw chief "from whom [Sutpen] got his land" as "old Ikkemotubbe" (33). Elsewhere he is referred to (by Shreve) only as "a poor ignorant Indian" (145) and (by the hypothetical lawyer in New Orleans) as "a drunken Indian" (241). Often referred to by the name "Doom," Ikkemotubbe appears frequently in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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