ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South’s history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a “fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements".

Detailed explanation-2: -Southern Gothic is a mode or genre prevalent in literature from the early 19th century to this day. Characteristics of Southern Gothic include the presence of irrational, horrific, and transgressive thoughts, desires, and impulses; grotesque characters; dark humor, and an overall angst-ridden sense of alienation.

Detailed explanation-3: -You can expect topics like racial bigotry and moral corruption. The authors usually like to include problems with society, and since this is Southern Gothic, lots of issues that have affected the South are present. Also, the South was built on concepts like slavery before the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -Southern gothic writers covered a period in the South’s history when violence was particularly prevalent. After the bloodshed of the Civil War, and the period of reconstruction that followed, racial tension and fear ran high in many small southern towns. This plays its part in many of the stories of this genre.

Detailed explanation-5: -isolation and marginalization. violence and crime. sense of place. freakishness and the grotesque. destitution and decay. oppression and discrimination.