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-[[Southern Gothic]] is the genre most frequently identified with [[grotesque]]s and [[William Faulkner]] is often cited as the ringmaster. [[Flannery O'Connor]] wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one" ("Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction," 1960). In her often-anthologized [[short story]] "[[A Good Man Is Hard To Find]]," the Misfit, a serial killer, is clearly a maimed soul, utterly callous to human life but driven to seek the truth. The less obvious grotesque is the polite, doting grandmother who is unaware of her own astonishing selfishness. Another oft-cited example of 'The Grotesque' from O'Connor's work is her short story entitled "[[A Temple Of The Holy Ghost]]."{{GFDL}}+'''Southern Gothic''' is a subgenre of [[gothic fiction]] unique to [[American literature]] that takes place exclusively in the [[Southern United States|American South]]. It resembles its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South.
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 +The southern gothic style is one that employs the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American south.
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 +Southern Gothic is the genre most frequently identified with [[grotesque]]s and [[William Faulkner]] is often cited as the ringmaster. [[Flannery O'Connor]] wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one" ("Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction," 1960). In her often-anthologized [[short story]] "[[A Good Man Is Hard To Find]]," the Misfit, a serial killer, is clearly a maimed soul, utterly callous to human life but driven to seek the truth. The less obvious grotesque is the polite, doting grandmother who is unaware of her own astonishing selfishness. Another oft-cited example of 'The Grotesque' from O'Connor's work is her short story entitled "[[A Temple Of The Holy Ghost]]."
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 +== Notable works ==
 +<!-- Please do not add any redlinked works to this list. It is too long as it is.---->
 + 
 +=== Literature ===
 +'''1929''' ''[[Sartoris]]'' & ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
 +* ''[[Look Homeward, Angel]]'' by [[Thomas Wolfe]]
 + 
 +'''1930''' ''[[As I Lay Dying (novel)|As I Lay Dying]]'' & "[[A Rose for Emily]]" by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1931''' ''[[Sanctuary (novel)|Sanctuary]]'' by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1932''' ''[[Tobacco Road (novel)|Tobacco Road]]'' by [[Erskine Caldwell]]
 +* ''[[Light in August]]'' by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1933''' ''[[God's Little Acre]]'' by Erskine Caldwell
 + 
 +'''1935''' ''[[Pylon (novel)|Pylon]]'' & "[[Uncle Willy]]" by William Faulkner
 +* ''[[Kneel to the Rising Sun]]'' by Erskine Caldwell
 + 
 +'''1936''' ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'' by William Faulkner
 +* "[[Black Canaan]]" by [[Robert E. Howard]]
 + 
 +'''1937''' ''[[You Have Seen Their Faces]]'' by Erskine Caldwell & [[Margaret Bourke White]]
 + 
 +'''1938''' ''[[The Unvanquished]]'' by William Faulkner
 +* "[[Pigeons from Hell]]" by Robert E. Howard
 + 
 +'''1940''' ''[[The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter]]'' by [[Carson McCullers]]
 +* "[[A Worn Path]]" by [[Eudora Welty]]
 +* ''[[The Hamlet]]'' by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1941''' ''[[Reflections in a Golden Eye (novel)|Reflections in a Golden Eye]] by Carson McCullers
 +* ''[[A Curtain of Green]]'' by Eudora Welty
 + 
 +'''1942''' ''[[Go Down, Moses]]'' & "[[Two Soldiers]]" by William Faulkner
 +* ''[[The Robber Bridegroom (novel)|The Robber Bridegroom]]'' by Eudora Welty
 + 
 +'''1943''' "[[Shingles for the Lord]]" by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1944''' ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]]
 + 
 +'''1946''' ''[[The Member of the Wedding]]'' by Carson McCullers
 +* ''[[27 Wagons Full of Cotton]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 +* "[[The Geranium]]" by [[Flannery O'Connor]]
 + 
 +'''1947''' ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' by Tennessee Williams (Pulitzer Prize award)
 + 
 +'''1948''' ''[[Other Voices, Other Rooms (novel)|Other Voices, Other Rooms]]'' by [[Truman Capote]]
 +* ''[[Summer and Smoke]]'' & ''[[The Night of the Iguana]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 +* ''[[Intruder in the Dust]]'' by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1951''' ''[[The Ballad of the Sad Café]]'' by Carson McCullers
 +* ''[[Requiem for a Nun]]'' by William Faulkner
 +* ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 + 
 +'''1952''' ''[[Wise Blood]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 + 
 +'''1953''' ''[[The Night of the Hunter (novel)|The Night of the Hunter]]'' by [[Davis Grubb]]
 + 
 +'''1955''' ''[[A Good Man Is Hard To Find]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 +* ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' by Tennessee Williams (Pulitzer Prize award)
 + 
 +'''1957''' ''[[Orpheus Descending]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 +* ''[[The Town (1957 novel)|The Town]]'' by William Faulkner
 + 
 +'''1958''' ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 + 
 +'''1959''' ''[[The Mansion (novel)|The Mansion]]'' by William Faulkner
 +* ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' by Tennessee Williams
 + 
 +'''1960''' ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' by [[Harper Lee]] (Pulitzer Prize Award)
 +* ''[[The Violent Bear It Away]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 + 
 +'''1962''' ''[[The Reivers]]'' by William Faulkner (Pulitzer Prize award)
 + 
 +'''1965''' ''[[The Orchard Keeper]]'' by [[Cormac McCarthy]]
 +* ''[[Everything That Rises Must Converge]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 + 
 +'''1968''' ''[[Outer Dark]]'' by Cormac McCarthy
 + 
 +'''1969''' ''[[Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 + 
 +'''1970''' ''[[Deliverance (novel)|Deliverance]]'' by [[James Dickey]]
 + 
 +'''1972''' ''[[Geronimo Rex]]'' by [[Barry Hannah]]
 +* ''[[The Optimist's Daughter]]'' by Eudora Welty (Pulitzer Prize award)
 + 
 +'''1979''' ''[[Suttree]]'' by Cormac McCarthy
 +* ''[[The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor]]'' by Flannery O'Connor
 + 
 +'''1978''' ''[[Lancelot (novel)|Lancelot]]'' by [[Walker Percy]]
 + 
 +'''1980''' ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by [[John Kennedy Toole]] (Pulitzer Prize award)
 +* ''[[Ray (novel)|Ray]]'' by Barry Hannah
 + 
 +'''1985''' ''[[Locked In Time]]'' by Lois Duncan
 + 
 +'''1983''' ''[[Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair]]'' by [[Lewis Nordan]]
 +* ''[[Oral History (novel)|Oral History]]'' by [[Lee Smith (author)|Lee Smith]]
 +* ''[[The Tennis Handsome]]'' by Barry Hannah
 + 
 +'''1987''' ''[[Beloved]]'' by [[Toni Morrison]] (Pulitzer Prize award)
 + 
 +'''1989''' ''[[And the Ass Saw the Angel]]'' by [[Nick Cave]]
 +* ''[[The Neon Bible]]'' by John Kennedy Toole
 + 
 +'''1992''' ''[[Joe (novel)|Joe]]'' by Larry Brown
 + 
 +'''1993''' ''[[The Witching Hour (novel)|The Witching Hour]]'' by Anne Rice
 + 
 +* ''[[In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead]]'' by [[James Lee Burke]]
 + 
 +'''1994''' ''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]'' by [[John Berendt]]
 + 
 +'''1995''' ''[[The Sharpshooter Blues]]'' by Lewis Nordan
 +* ''[[Bats out of Hell]]'' by Barry Hannah
 + 
 +'''1996''' ''[[The Green Mile (novel)|The Green Mile]]'' by [[Stephen King]]
 + 
 +'''1998''' ''[[A Feast of Snakes]]'' by [[Harry Crews]]
 + 
 +'''1999''' ''[[The Long Home]]'' by [[William Gay (author)|William Gay]]
 + 
 +'''2000''' ''[[Tideland]]'' by [[Mitch Cullin]]
 +* ''[[A Fine Dark Line]]'' by [[Joe R. Lansdale]]
 +* ''[[Provinces of Night]]'' by William Gay
 + 
 +'''2001''' ''[[Yonder Stands Your Orphan]]'' by Barry Hannah
 +* ''[[The Southern Vampire Mysteries]]'' by [[Charlaine Harris]]
 + 
 +'''2002''' ''[[The Little Friend]]'' by [[Donna Tartt]]
 + 
 +'''2003''' ''[[The Choir of Ill Children]]'' by [[Tom Piccirilli]]
 + 
 +'''2004''' ''[[Sunset and Sawdust]]'' by Joe R. Lansdale
 + 
 +'''2005''' ''[[Four and Twenty Blackbirds (novel)|Four and Twenty Blackbirds]]'' by [[Cherie Priest]]
 +* ''[[Gather at the River: Notes From the Post Millennial South]]'' by [[Hal Crowther]]
 +* ''[[November Mourns]]'' by Tom Piccirilli
 + 
 +'''2006''' ''[[Wings to the Kingdom]]'' by Cherie Priest
 + 
 +'''2007''' ''[[Not Flesh 'Nor Feathers]]'' & ''[[Dreadful Skin]]'' by Cherie Preist
 +* ''[[The Shadows, Kith and Kin]]'' & ''[[Lost Echoes]]'' by Joe R. Lansdale
 +* ''[[Hume's Fork (novel)|Hume's Fork]]'' by Ron Cooper
 + 
 +'''2008''' ''[[Tennyson (novel)|Tennyson]]'' by [[Lesley M.M. Blume]]
 +* ''[[Firefly Rain]]'' by [[Richard Dansky]]
 + 
 +'''2009''' ''[[Beautiful Creatures (book)|Beautiful Creatures]]'' by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
 + 
 +'''2010''' ''[[Purple Jesus (novel)|Purple Jesus]]'' by Ron Cooper
 + 
 +=== Films ===
 +*''[[The Story of Temple Drake]]'' (1933)
 +*''[[Romance of the Limberlost]]'' (1938)
 +*''[[Intruder in the Dust]]'' (1949)
 +*''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1951, Best Picture nom.)
 +*''[[The Night of the Hunter (film)|The Night of the Hunter]]'' (1955)
 +*''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1958, Best Picture nom.)
 +*''[[The Defiant Ones]]'' (1958, Best Picture nom.)
 +*''[[The Long, Hot Summer]]'' (1958)
 +*''[[The Tarnished Angels]]'' (1958)
 +*''[[God's Little Acre (film)|God's Little Acre]]'' (1958)
 +*''[[The Fugitive Kind]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[Desire in the Dust]]'' (1960)
 +*''[[Summer and Smoke]]'' (1961)
 +*''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' (1962, Best Picture nom.)
 +*''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' (1962)
 +*''[[Cape Fear (1962 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1962)
 +*''[[Toys in the Attic (film)|Toys in the Attic]]'' (1963)
 +*''[[Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]'' (1964)
 +*''[[This Property is Condemned]]'' (1966)
 +*''[[The Chase (1966 film)|The Chase]]'' (1966)
 +*''[[Reflections in a Golden Eye (film)|Reflections in a Golden Eye]]'' (1967)
 +*''[[The Heart is a Lonely Hunter]]'' (1968)
 +*''[[The Reivers (film)|The Reivers]]'' (1969)
 +*''[[Last of the Mobile Hot Shots]]'' (1970)
 +*''[[The Liberation of L.B. Jones]]'' (1970)
 +*''[[The Beguiled]]'' (1971)
 +*''[[Deliverance]]'' (1972, Best Picture nom.)
 +*''[[The Sugarland Express]]'' (1974)
 +*''[[Days of Heaven]]'' (1978)
 +*''[[Wise Blood (film)|Wise Blood]]'' (1979)
 +*''[[The Beyond (film)|The Beyond]]'' (1981)
 +*''[[Southern Comfort (film)|Southern Comfort]]'' (1981)
 +*''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' (1984, remake)
 +*''[[Down By Law (film)|Down By Law]]'' (1986)
 +*''[[No Mercy (film)|No Mercy]]'' (1986)
 +*''[[Sweet Bird of Youth (1989 film)|Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' (1989, remake)
 +*''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild At Heart]]'' (1990)
 +*''[[The Reflecting Skin (film)|The Reflecting Skin]]'' (1990)
 +*''[[Scorchers (film)|Scorchers]]'' (1991)
 +*''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1991, remake)
 +*''[[The Ballad of the Sad Cafe]]'' (1991)
 +*''[[My Name Is Mud]]'' (1993, music video)
 +*''[[The Neon Bible (film)|The Neon Bible]]'' (1995)
 +*''[[The Passion of Darkly Noon]]'' (1995)
 +*''[[Bastard Out of Carolina (film)|Bastard Out of Carolina]]'' (1996)
 +*''[[Sling Blade]]'' (1996)
 +*''[[Eve's Bayou]]'' (1997)
 +*''[[Eye of God (film)|Eye of God]]'' (1997)
 +*''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (film)|Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]'' (1997)
 +*''[[The Gingerbread Man (film)|The Gingerbread Man]]'' (1998)
 +*''[[Wayward Son]]'' (1999)
 +*''[[George Washington (film)|George Washington]]'' (2000)
 +*''[[The Gift (2000 film)|The Gift]]'' (2000)
 +*''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' (2000)
 +*''[[Two Soldiers]]'' (2003, short)
 +*''[[Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus]]'' (2003, doc)
 +*''[[The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things]]'' (2004)
 +*''[[Undertow (2004 film)|Undertow]]'' (2004)
 +*''[[A Love Song for Bobby Long]]'' (2004)
 +*''[[Dead Birds (2004 film)|Dead Birds]]'' (2004)
 +*''[[The Skeleton Key]]'' (2005)
 +*''[[The King (2005 film)|The King]]'' (2005)
 +*''[[Tideland (film)|Tideland]]'' (2005)
 +*''[[Loren Cass]]'' (2006)
 +*''[[Things That Hang from Trees]]'' (2006)
 +*''[[The Reaping]]'' (2007)
 +*''[[Black Snake Moan (film)|Black Snake Moan]]'' (2007)
 +*''[[Midnight Bayou]]'' (2009)
 +*''[[That Evening Sun (film)|That Evening Sun]]'' (2009)
 +*''Provinces of Night, AKA [[Bloodworth]]'' (2010)
 + 
 +=== Television ===
 +*[[American Gothic (TV series)|''American Gothic'' (TV series)]] (CBS, 1995–1996)
 +*''[[True Blood]]'' (HBO, 2008–)
 + 
 +=== Music ===
 +*The Legendary Shack Shakers
 + 
 +== See also ==
 +*[[Southern Ontario Gothic]]
 +*[[African American literature]]
 +*[[Southern literature]]
 +*[[Southern Renaissance]]
 +*[[Suburban Gothic]]
 +*[[Tasmanian Gothic]]
 +*[[Magical realism]]
 +{{GFDL}}

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Southern Gothic is a subgenre of gothic fiction unique to American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South. It resembles its parent genre in that it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot. It is unlike its parent genre in that it uses these tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South.

The southern gothic style is one that employs the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American south.

Southern Gothic is the genre most frequently identified with grotesques and William Faulkner is often cited as the ringmaster. Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one" ("Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction," 1960). In her often-anthologized short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," the Misfit, a serial killer, is clearly a maimed soul, utterly callous to human life but driven to seek the truth. The less obvious grotesque is the polite, doting grandmother who is unaware of her own astonishing selfishness. Another oft-cited example of 'The Grotesque' from O'Connor's work is her short story entitled "A Temple Of The Holy Ghost."


Contents

Notable works

Literature

1929 Sartoris & The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

1930 As I Lay Dying & "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

1931 Sanctuary by William Faulkner

1932 Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

1933 God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell

1935 Pylon & "Uncle Willy" by William Faulkner

1936 Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

1937 You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell & Margaret Bourke White

1938 The Unvanquished by William Faulkner

1940 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

1941 Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers

1942 Go Down, Moses & "Two Soldiers" by William Faulkner

1943 "Shingles for the Lord" by William Faulkner

1944 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

1946 The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

1947 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Pulitzer Prize award)

1948 Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

1951 The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

1952 Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

1953 The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

1955 A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor

1957 Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams

1958 Suddenly, Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

1959 The Mansion by William Faulkner

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Pulitzer Prize Award)

1962 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Pulitzer Prize award)

1965 The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

1968 Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

1969 Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor

1970 Deliverance by James Dickey

1972 Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah

1979 Suttree by Cormac McCarthy

1978 Lancelot by Walker Percy

1980 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer Prize award)

  • Ray by Barry Hannah

1985 Locked In Time by Lois Duncan

1983 Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair by Lewis Nordan

1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer Prize award)

1989 And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave

1992 Joe by Larry Brown

1993 The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

1994 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

1995 The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan

1996 The Green Mile by Stephen King

1998 A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

1999 The Long Home by William Gay

2000 Tideland by Mitch Cullin

2001 Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah

2002 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

2003 The Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli

2004 Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale

2005 Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

2006 Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest

2007 Not Flesh 'Nor Feathers & Dreadful Skin by Cherie Preist

2008 Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume

2009 Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

2010 Purple Jesus by Ron Cooper

Films

Television

Music

  • The Legendary Shack Shakers

See also


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