Southern Renaissance

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The Southern Renaissance was a flourishing early- to mid-20th-century American literary movement centered in the U.S. South, marked by writers who explored themes of history, race, identity, and social change in a modernist style.

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instanceOf 20th-century literary movement
American literary movement
literary movement
academicReception widely studied in American literature curricula
aim to critique racism and social injustice
to reconcile regional identity with modernity
to reinterpret Southern history and culture
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endTime mid-20th century
genre drama
fiction
poetry
hasNotableAuthor Allen Tate
Carson McCullers
Cleanth Brooks
Elizabeth Spencer
Eudora Welty
Flannery O'Connor
surface form: Flannery O’Connor

James Agee
John Crowe Ransom
Katherine Anne Porter
Lillian Hellman
Peter Taylor
Richard Wright
Robert Penn Warren
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Wolfe
Walker Percy
William Faulkner
Zora Neale Hurston
hasNotableWork A Good Man Is Hard to Find
A Streetcar Named Desire
Absalom, Absalom!
All the King’s Men
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Sound and the Fury
historicalContext Jim Crow laws
surface form: Jim Crow era

post-Reconstruction South
influenced Southern Gothic
surface form: Southern Gothic literature

late-20th-century Southern fiction
influencedBy American modernism
Modernism
surface form: European modernism

Southern Agrarians
surface form: Southern Agrarianism
languageFeature regional dialects
vernacular speech
literaryStyle modernism
mainTheme Southern Gothic elements
history
identity
race
religion
social change
the legacy of slavery
the legacy of the Civil War
tradition versus modernity
movementFocus literature
region Southern United States
surface form: American South
startTime early 20th century

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Caroline Compson literaryPeriod Southern Renaissance
Benjy Compson literaryPeriod Southern Renaissance
John Ehle partOf Southern Renaissance
this entity surface form: North Carolina literary tradition
The Hamlet hasLiteraryMovement Southern Renaissance
The Reivers literaryMovement Southern Renaissance
this entity surface form: Southern literature
DuBose Heyward movement Southern Renaissance
Cid Ricketts Sumner movement Southern Renaissance
Delta Wedding literaryMovement Southern Renaissance
The Golden Apples associatedWithMovement Southern Renaissance
McCaslin family literaryPeriod Southern Renaissance
Miss Quentin Compson literaryPeriod Southern Renaissance