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Southern Gothic Literature  Definition, Characteristics   Authors

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An article from the LA Times

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He was rejected from he army because he was underweight and too short, this may have set off his civil war obsession and powered the ideas for his stories

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Usually takes place in a barren wasteland

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An article from The New York Times

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True Detective, American Horror Story, True Blood, Faulkner, The Walking Dead, Flannery O'Connor -- what do these shows and writers have in common? Why, the Southern Gothic. Read the essays I mentioned: Kiyash Monsef on the Southern Mythic (http://dft.ba/-8miT) and Lincoln Michel's "Lush Rot" (http://dft.ba/-8m6h).

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Faulkner was fascinated with the civil war, almost obsessed with it and the effects of it were shown in all of his stories.

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He made up a county where all of his stories took place called Yoknapatawpha and it has been said to be the most vast and geographically complex fictional area ever in literature.

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He was a southerner himself from Mississippi, he wrote from a point of expertise.

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William Faulkner - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950)

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The go-to YouTube version cuts off right at the end - here is the "entire" recording, which, incidentally, was also cut off when it was originally made.

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A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, William Faulkner was the poet-novelist of Mississippi. His novels "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Light in August" all reflect the history and culture of the American South.

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An introduction to the basics of southern Gothic literature.

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an educational standpoint on the themes and characteristics present in southern Gothic literature.

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the forefather of southern Gothic literature

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lots of things are falling apart; towns, houses, people, communities. The loss of the civil war and freeing slaves ruined the southern economy.

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usually a factor in the identity of the southern people, reflecting on their brittle and cruel personalities.

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Slaves are often present, due to the timeline and racism. Since the economy of the south was built on their slavery, it is always associated with this area even to this day.

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many damaged often disillusion characters.