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Southern literature
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
Southern history
, the significance of
family
, a sense of
community
and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant
religion
(
Christianity
— see
Protestantism
) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of
racial tension
, land and the promise it brings, a sense of
social class
and place, and the use of
the Southern dialect
.
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