Southern Gothic Literature

Pre-University Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 15 Punkte (1+), , language: English, abstract: 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.