ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In some Gothic novels, violence functions as either an act of social interrogation or of affirmation for certain values.

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: -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-4: -isolation and marginalization. violence and crime. sense of place. freakishness and the grotesque. destitution and decay. oppression and discrimination.