Southern Gothic literature

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Southern_Gothic_literature
GPTKB entity
Statements (43)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:literature
gptkbp:characterizedBy social issues
decay
Southern United States setting
grotesque characters
macabre themes
gptkbp:emergedIn early 20th century
gptkbp:explores gptkb:murder
alienation
race relations
poverty
gptkbp:genre gptkb:Gothic_horror
gptkb:American_Gothic
Southern literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Southern Gothic literature
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Gothic_literature
Southern culture
Southern history
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:motif isolation
madness
family secrets
supernatural elements
decay of the Old South
decaying plantations
eccentric characters
moral corruption
religious imagery
gptkbp:notableContributor gptkb:Carson_McCullers
gptkb:Eudora_Welty
gptkb:Flannery_O'Connor
gptkb:Tennessee_Williams
gptkb:William_Faulkner
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Sound_and_the_Fury
gptkb:To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
gptkb:A_Rose_for_Emily
gptkb:The_Heart_is_a_Lonely_Hunter
gptkb:Wise_Blood
gptkbp:setting gptkb:American_South
gptkbp:subspecies gptkb:Gothic_fiction
American literature
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:the_American_South
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7