Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-12-27 16:28
According to Ratliff, after Ab Snopes was whipped - and perhaps worse - by Bayard Sartoris, Uncle Buck McCaslin and "a nigger," he "skulked" around for a time in "the hills" (32). In Yoknapatawpha, the "hills" are usually the area east of Jefferson. This episode in Ab's life is depicted in "Vendee" and The Unvanquished, where the person who actually 'whips' Ab is the Negro named Ringo.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Tue, 2016-12-27 16:19
In the Yoknapatawpha fictions, the term 'hill country' usually means the area east of Jefferson. The wealthy planters occupy the rich soil in the flat lands and river bottoms that are often closer to town, but the land in the hills is poorer and harder to work, and the people who live there - the 'country people' or 'hill folk' - often struggle for subsistence.
