Africa in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)

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Africa
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OutOfYoknapatawpha
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2514
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1370
Description: 

"Africa" appears explicitly in the novel only as an adjective, when in its penultimate paragraph Shreve tells Quentin that "in a few thousand years" they "will also have sprung from the loins of African kings" (302). But in Chapter 7, in the context of Sutpen's experience in Haiti, there are references to "what we call the jungle" and "the dark inscrutable continent" that is the source of "the black blood" that is supposedly in the veins of 'black' people (202).

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Only Mentioned in Text
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Continuous
Types: 
Continent; African Country
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Africa

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