Southern Gothic
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Southern Gothic is a literary genre that blends macabre, grotesque, and supernatural elements with social critique to explore the history, decay, and moral complexities of the American South.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiction genre
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literary genre ⓘ subgenre of Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor |
Carson McCullers
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Cormac McCarthy ⓘ Eudora Welty ⓘ Flannery O'Connor ⓘ
surface form:
Flannery O’Connor
Harper Lee ⓘ Tennessee Williams ⓘ Truman Capote ⓘ William Faulkner ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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A Streetcar Named Desire ⓘ The Sound and the Fury ⓘ
surface form:
As I Lay Dying
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ⓘ The Sound and the Fury ⓘ To Kill a Mockingbird ⓘ Wise Blood ⓘ |
| developedInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| explores |
conflict between past and present in the South
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history of the American South ⓘ racial inequality in the American South ⓘ social injustice in the American South ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
atmospheric setting
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focus on decay ⓘ focus on moral complexity ⓘ focus on psychological depth ⓘ grotesque elements ⓘ macabre elements ⓘ sense of doom ⓘ social critique ⓘ supernatural elements ⓘ use of dark humor ⓘ use of irony ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Southern United States
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surface form:
American South
decaying plantations ⓘ post-Civil War South ⓘ rural Southern towns ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
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class conflict ⓘ decay of the Old South ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ guilt ⓘ legacy of slavery ⓘ madness ⓘ outsiders and misfits ⓘ racial tension ⓘ religious hypocrisy ⓘ sin ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American realism
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Gothic literature ⓘ
surface form:
Gothic fiction
regionalism ⓘ |
| relatedGenre |
American Gothic
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Gothic horror ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ |
| usesMotif |
decaying mansions
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grotesque characters ⓘ hauntings ⓘ religious symbolism ⓘ violent revelations ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Southern Gothic fiction
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Southern Gothic literature
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American Southern Gothic literature
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Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction
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The Grotesque in Southern Fiction
this entity surface form:
Southern Gothic literature
this entity surface form:
Southern Gothic literature
subject surface form:
Jason Compson III
this entity surface form:
Southern Gothic literature