However, the strategic ways in which Southern Gothic texts tend to link race to issues of gender and sexuality are rather more unexpected. Oftentimes, the Gothic is invoked to convey the oppressiveness of corrupt establishments or ideologies it is little surprise, then, that when it is applied to a region with a unique history of slavery, lynching and prolonged segregation, the Southern Gothic frequently works to undercut institutionalized racism. The term “Southern Gothic” is one that has been maligned by a some scholars who suggest it is too-readily applied to the region’s literature however, because Gothic tropes-including grotesque figures, haunted houses, ghosts, and vampires-have enjoyed increasing popularity in literature and film about the American South over the past eighty years, it is imperative to theorize more fully the effects of this modal/regional pairing. The Southern Gothic genre of writing is characterized by horrific and irrational thoughts and desires, crazy impulses and very dark characters, as well as irony and almost an. In this dissertation, “The Evolving Southern Gothic: Traditions of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Horror in the Imagined American South,” I advocate a reclaiming of the Gothic as a critical lens for study of literature set in the American South. The definition of Southern Gothic literature is, Southern Gothic is a mode or genre prevalent in literature from the early 19th century to this day (Bjerre 1).
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