In this essay, the author Jessica Santosa Hidajat discusses the Southern Gothic Literature, the genre which To Kill a Mockingbird was written in, its historical background and respectively the political and social circumstances that have influenced it.
She has taken four books from the Southern Gothic Literature to present in this essay. She has chosen these books because each two of them represent two important subjects in the literature of the Southern States: A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner express the downfall of Southern nobility and the exclusion of their characters from society, Light in August , also by William Faulkner, expresses intimacy and homosexuality in the Southern States and Bastard out of Carolina from Dorothy Allison is at the same time a coming-of-age novel dealing with a childhood subjected to poverty, violence and sexual abuse.
In the attachment that is lightened by some colorful photographs, the author explains the backgrounds for the titles of these books.
Index
1. Introduction
2. Defining the Southern Gothic Literature
3. Historical Backgrounds
a. Political situation in the 19th century
b. Southern nobility
c. Poverty in the South
4. Literature in the Southern States
a. Civil War and Reconstruction
b. Queering in the South
c. Motives and narrative techniques
5. Southern Gothic in chosen novels
a. A Streetcar Named Desire
i. Content
ii. Typical characteristics referring to Southern Gothic
b. The Sound and the Fury
i. Content
ii. Typical characteristics referring to Southern Gothic
c. Light in August
i. Content
ii. Typical characteristics referring to Southern Gothic
d. Bastard out of Carolina
i. Content
ii. Typical characteristics referring to Southern Gothic
6. Why Southern Gothic is no longer existing in the Southern Literature
7. Conclusion
8. Attachment
a. What do the books’ titles mean?
i. A Streetcar Named Desire
ii. The Sound and the Fury
iii. Light in August
b. Mother issues and desire of the Compson boys
c. Vacation in the Southern States
i. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
ii. Big Walker Mountain, Wytheville, Viginia
9. Bibliography
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- Jessica Santosa Hidajat (Autor:in), 2017, Southern Gothic Literature, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/441974
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