LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Southern food like butter beans and collards
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Southern settings like barns and porches
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Southern attire like overalls and floweredy dresses
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Southern hospitality like Ta’ll come back now, ya hear?
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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: -The main characters of southern gothic stories are often strangers in strange places, small towns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana or Georgia (as in the case of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor’s work) inhabited by the most compelling band of outsiders you ever thought possible.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The stories of Southern Gothic are, of course, set in the South. They may take place on a plantation, old slave quarters or broken-down towns. There are many Southern elements in the stories, including dialect, habits and personalities. The history of the South is represented through the settings of the stories.
Detailed explanation-5: -isolation and marginalization. violence and crime. sense of place. freakishness and the grotesque. destitution and decay. oppression and discrimination.