Video Clip: A Southern World View

A Southern World View of The Old South and Pro-slavery Ideology

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http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfByLRO5xs&feature=relmfu

Video Clip: A Clip of American Southern Literature

A clip with explicit explanation about American Southern Literature

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLOwDRSFCM

Video Clip: Brief Introduction of Southern Renaissance

Brief introduction of Southern Renaissance

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXvaFqEqlauE

Southern Literature: Definition

Definition of American Southern Literature

    In order to understand the role of the Southern Gothic in American Literature, it is important to understand its background. American Southern literature is usually referred to as those American literature associated with the Southern United States or writers from this region. There are some characteristics of Southern literature, including the importance of family, the emphasis of community, how one is influenced by the two, and of course a focus on Southern history. In addition, the region's dominant religion plays a very important role in Southern literature; in many works the advantages and disadvantages religion brings are often discussed. Issues of racial tension, as well as conflict resulted from different social classes can also be referred in works of American Southern Literature

"The states in dark red are almost always included in modern day definitions of the South, while those in medium red are usually included. The striped states are sometimes/occasionally considered Southern" (Wikipedia).

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Wikipedia

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Southern Literature: Representative Writers and Their Works

Southern Literature: 

representative writers and their works

	William Faulkner	*   As I Lay Dying *   Absalom, Absalom! (novels)
	Zora Neale Hurston	*   “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (essay) *   Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel)
	John Crowe Ransom	*   “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” *   “Here Lies a Lady” *   “Philomela” *   “Piazza Piece” *   “Janet Waking” (poems)
	Katherine Anne Porter	*   “Flowering Judas” (short story)
	Thomas Wolfe	*   “The Lost Boy” (short story)
	Robert Penn Warren	*   “Bearded Oaks” *   “Audubon” *   “American Portrait: Old Style” *   “Acquaintance with Time in Early Autumn” *   “Mortal Limit” *   “After the Dinner Party” (poems)
	Richard Wright	*   “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (short story)
	Eudora Welty	*   “Petrified Man” (short story)
	Tennessee Williams	*   A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
	Flannery O’Connor	*   “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” *   “Good Country People” (short stories)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://sparknotes.com/

Southern Literature: Historical Text

Historical texts

Year	Texts	Contexts
1920s	Ø Katherine Anne Porter, “Maria Concepcion” (1922), Flowering Judas (1930) Ø William Faulkner, The Marble Faun (1924), Soldier’s Pay (1926), Mosquitos (1927), Sartoris (1929), The Sound and the Fury (1929) Ø John Crowe Ransom, Here Lies a Lady (1924)	Group of writers who would later come to be known as the Southern Agrarians publishes The Fugitive as an outlet for their poetry and criticism (1922–25).        State v. John Scopes (the Scopes “Monkey” Trial),Dayton, Tennessee (1925).         Wall Street crash begins the Great Depression (1929).
1930s	Ø    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), “Barn Burning” (1938) Ø    Southern Agrarians publish I’ll Take My Stand, by“Twelve Southerners” Ø    Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933), Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934), Mules and Men(1935), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Ø    Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind (1936) Ø    Katherine Anne Porter, Noon Wine (1937), “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939) Ø    Richard Wright, Uncle Tom’s Children (1938), “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (1939)	“Scottsboro Boys” (nine    African American youths) tried for the alleged rape of two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates (1931–37).        Faulkner in Hollywood  on contract as a scriptwriter (1932–37).         Eighteenth Amendment repealed; Prohibition ends (1933).         World War II begins (1939).
1940s	Ø William Faulkner, The  Hamlet (1940), Intruder in the Dust (1948). Ø Richard Wright, Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945) Ø Eudora Welty, “Petrified Man” (1941), The Robber Bridegroom (1942). Ø Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942) Ø Robert Penn Warren, “Bearded Oaks” (1942), All the King’s Men (1946). Ø Katherine Anne Porter, The Leaning Tower (1944). Ø Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1945), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Ø The Portable Faulkner, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1946).	Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brings United States into World War II (1941).                    United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders, ending World War II. Cold War between United States and Soviet Union begins (1945).                    Jackie Robinson becomes first black major-league baseball player (1947).
1950s	Ø          Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People” (1955) William Faulkner, The Town (1957), The Mansion (1959)	Senator Joseph McCarthy begins attacks on communism (1950). Korean War (1950–53)        House Concurrent Resolution 108 dictates government’s intention to “terminate” its treaty relations with the Native American tribes (1953).         Brown v. Board of Education declares segregated schools unconstitutional (1954).