Taulkinham, Tennessee (fictional city)

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Taulkinham, Tennessee is a fictional Southern U.S. city that serves as the bleak, grotesque urban backdrop of Flannery O’Connor’s novel *Wise Blood*.

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Taulkinham, Tennessee (fictional city) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional city
literary setting
appearsInWorkBy Flannery O’Connor NERFINISHED
associatedLiteraryMovement American literature GENERATED
associatedTheme moral decay
religious fanaticism
spiritual desolation
country United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Flannery O’Connor NERFINISHED
describedAs bleak
grotesque
fictionalStatus nonexistent in real geography
firstAppearedIn Wise Blood NERFINISHED
genreContext Southern Gothic
hasAtmosphere decayed
oppressive
hasCulturalContext mid-20th-century American South
hasLanguageContext English
locatedIn Southern United States
surface form: American South

Tennessee
medium novel
narrativeFunction primary urban backdrop in Wise Blood
settingOf Wise Blood NERFINISHED
urbanType city
usedFor satirical depiction of Southern urban life

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Hazel Motes setting Taulkinham, Tennessee (fictional city)