New York City in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

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New York City
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Text (when unambiguous)
X: 
2544
Y: 
848
Description: 

New York is mentioned four times in the novel: as a reference point for measuring how much more of the world the soldiers who went from Yoknapatawpha to serve overseas during World War II have seen (193); as the hometown of "young men from Brooklyn" who attend southern colleges on the G.I. Bill and sell "tiny confederate battle flags" at Saturday football games (194); as the location of the "East Side sweat-shops" where the clothes that the Yoknapatawpha children of Negro and poor whites are made (192); and as one of the northern and western cities to which the Negroes who formerly farmed the land have moved in the 20th century (193).

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
City; Manufacturing Facility

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