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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Renaissance canonical | 9 |
| North Carolina literary tradition | 1 |
| Southern literature | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Southern Renaissance Context triple: [Caroline Compson, literaryPeriod, Southern Renaissance]
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Southern Gothic
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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American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
The American South in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a predominantly agrarian, racially segregated region defined by the legacy of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow laws, with a political culture rooted in white supremacy and states’ rights.
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Southern Society
Southern Society was a secret revolutionary organization of Russian officers in the early 19th century that sought to overthrow autocracy and implement liberal reforms.
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Southern
Southern is a British train operating company that provides passenger rail services in southern England, including routes through London and the surrounding regions.
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American Regionalism
American Regionalism is a late-19th- and early-20th-century U.S. art movement that depicted rural life and local landscapes in a realistic, often nostalgic style, emphasizing distinctly American subjects and settings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Southern Renaissance Target entity description: 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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A.
Southern Gothic
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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B.
American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
The American South in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a predominantly agrarian, racially segregated region defined by the legacy of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow laws, with a political culture rooted in white supremacy and states’ rights.
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C.
Southern Society
Southern Society was a secret revolutionary organization of Russian officers in the early 19th century that sought to overthrow autocracy and implement liberal reforms.
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D.
Southern
Southern is a British train operating company that provides passenger rail services in southern England, including routes through London and the surrounding regions.
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E.
American Regionalism
American Regionalism is a late-19th- and early-20th-century U.S. art movement that depicted rural life and local landscapes in a realistic, often nostalgic style, emphasizing distinctly American subjects and settings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century literary movement
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American literary movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| academicReception | widely studied in American literature curricula ⓘ |
| aim |
to critique racism and social injustice
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to reconcile regional identity with modernity ⓘ to reinterpret Southern history and culture ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| endTime | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasNotableAuthor |
Allen Tate
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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
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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
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surface form:
Jim Crow era
post-Reconstruction South ⓘ |
| influenced |
Southern Gothic
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surface form:
Southern Gothic literature
late-20th-century Southern fiction ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American modernism
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Modernism ⓘ
surface form:
European modernism
Southern Agrarians ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Agrarianism
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| languageFeature |
regional dialects
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vernacular speech ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | modernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Southern Gothic elements
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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
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surface form:
American South
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| startTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Southern Renaissance Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (11)
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