Southern United States literature
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- | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Southern literature''' (sometimes called the '''literature of the American South''') is defined as [[American literature]] about the [[Southern United States]] or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common [[American history|Southern history]], the significance of [[family]], a sense of [[community]] and one’s role within it, the region's dominant [[religion]] ([[Christianity]], See [[Protestantism]]) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of [[Racism in the United States|racial tension]], land and the promise it brings, a sense of [[social class]] and place, and the use of [[Southern American English|the Southern dialect]]. |
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