Southern Literature

[Anonymous No.18305948]

Recommend me your favorite novels and poems from the American South

[Anonymous No.18305958]

>>18305948
James Agee’s works

[Anonymous No.18305979]

chickun sundae

[Anonymous No.18305982]

>>18305948
>southern literature
>it's all about quadroons
>it's all written by yankophiles

[Anonymous No.18306021]

>>18305948
Gone with the wind

[Anonymous No.18306030]

>>18305948
My soon to be novelized diary desu

[Anonymous No.18306031]

>>18305948
Any good massa /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18306037]

>>18305948
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
Suttree
Huckleberry Finn (not exactly the South, but close enough culturally/linguistically)
All the King's Men
Poetry by Robert Penn Warren

[Anonymous No.18306043]

>>18305948
Toni Morrison

[Anonymous No.18306047]

>>18306037
honorable mentions:
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Pale Horse, Pale Rider

[Anonymous No.18306051]

Pic related

Carson McCullers is amazing too. Also if you like O'Connor's short stories I'd definitely recommend Winesburg, Ohio as well. Not exactly southern lit but there's a similar feeling to it.

[Anonymous No.18306060]

Novels and stories of Faulkner (favorite is "Absalom, Absalom!")
Poems and novels of Tate (Favorite is "The Fathers")
Stories of O'Connor (Favorite is "Good Man is Hard to Find"
Poems and novels of Penn Warren (Favorite is "Brother to Dragons")

Add on Cash ("Mind of the South"), Wright, McCullers, Welty, Percy, and Agee as you see fit.

[Anonymous No.18306150]

>>18306051
Carson is great, came to post her.

There is a reason Winesburg, Ohio has a similar feel, Sherwood Anderson was a major influence on southern gothic, hell he was a mentor and major influence on Faulkner and helped get him published. He was also an important person in the life of the young Hemingway and helped get him published. Anderson really should be better remembered and read, he played a fairly important role in American lit and was a great writer.

[Anonymous No.18306163]

>Pat Conroy
The Great Santini, The Lords of Dscipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music
>Truman Capote
I think he was from New Orleans
>Deliverance
>The Dexter Books

[Anonymous No.18306164]

American South? I'd have to say Borges or Machado de Assis.

[Anonymous No.18306168]

>>18306031
Amazon erotica

[Anonymous No.18306173]

Julia Peterkin - Scarlet Sister Mary, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

[Anonymous No.18306175]

>>18306164
That's South America.

[ReleaseMeFromThisMask-LikeForm !!HraTM3Vvtb/ No.18306177]

>>18306150
Winesburg, Ohio is a series of short stories. It is first and foremost a novel about life and growing up in Winesburg. But the realism comes from the presentation of the town and people. It is pretty close to what life must have been like in those days in Winesburg Ohio, and they were fiction. There is much that’s wrong with Winesburg, but it is still the real thing and the perfect example of Southern gothic.

[Anonymous No.18306322]

>>18306177
It is essentially the first southern gothic, the movement was heavily inspired by it, especially Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.18306374]

It might have been brought up already but "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner was a great novel in the Southern U.S. setting. I personally found the point of view direction of delivering the story an interesting choice by him but one that works well in the end. It's a book I feel I should pick up again and re-read myself.

[Anonymous No.18306378]

>>18306175
You said American South

[Anonymous No.18306399]

>>18305948
Just read The Moviegoer. To be honest, I didn't get much out of it. I didn't realize how steeped in southern culture Walker Percy was, and while I appreciate the nuance, I feel nearly all of it was lost on me as a Rhode Islander. The only bit I got was a little of the Frenchness of Louisiana, as my mother's side of the family is Quebecois, however there is not as much overlap between the Quebecois diaspora and the Louisiana Cajun diaspora as one may think.

If you're southern or from Louisiana, I'm sure The Moviegoer would probably be very resonant.

[Anonymous No.18306417]

>>18306378
That means Southern USA

[Anonymous No.18306436]

>>18306378
Damn dude, you really got us by being intentionally obtuse

[Anonymous No.18306446]

>>18306417
>>18306436
The American South, as you call it, is actually in the northern part of America, pal.

[Anonymous No.18306451]

>>18306446
>I'm being retarded on purpose, guys!

[Anonymous No.18306461]

>>18306451
Look at a map of the American Continent and tell me if the United States of America are above or below the Equator

[Anonymous No.18306472]

>>18306399
I didn't love The Moviegoer either

[Anonymous No.18306476]

>>18306177
if winesburg ohio is the perfect example of southern gothic than so is don quixote you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.18306483]

>>18306399
the moviegoer was attempting to depict a kind of midcentury southern experience that wasn't a burlesque. otherwise it would have read like a harry crews novel

[Anonymous No.18306528]

>>18306476
Have you even read Winesburg, Ohio or any southern gothic?

[Anonymous No.18306573]

>>18306461
The Equator is not what defines North and South America if that's what you mean. It's the different landmass to which they belong to. But here, American South refers to Southern USA, so stop being a pedantic obtuse faggot.

[Anonymous No.18306609]

GOAT alert

[Anonymous No.18306623]

>>18306037
>All the King's Men
I'm about two chapters into this and it's really good so far. I didn't know anything about Penn Warren before starting and was expecting a straightforward historical novel about Huey Long, but the style and presentation are much more poetic than that. It's very poignant and also funny in places, and I already find the way he contrasts the characters of Stark and Burden to be fascinating.

[Anonymous No.18306644]

>>18306573
Hmm I dont think so

[Anonymous No.18306804]

>>18306164
Based.

[Anonymous No.18306850]

>>18306623
Warren is one of the best poets that America produced. That sensibility runs through much of his prose as well.

[Anonymous No.18307057]

>>18305948
Bastard Out of Carolina

[Anonymous No.18307109]

>>18305948
Cormac McCarthy

[Anonymous No.18307209]

>>18306031
Amazon Erotica.

[Anonymous No.18307229]

>>18306644
What you think is irrelevant. What the term means and how's it use is what matters.