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 * Southern Gothic/ Grotesque**

Michele Hopson

Southern Gothic is a style of writing. Many writers that lived in the South wrote stories that were set in that region. They can be characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents. According to the dictionary grotesque means "odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre" (Grotesque). Southern Gothic originated in the 18th Century in England. As early Gothic  writers used this genre to criticize what they saw as the moral blindness of the medieval era. So basically, Southern Gothic  writers dealt with their own past through  Gothic  tropes. In those types of literature authors write about the super natural, such as mental diseases, or discrimination against race, sex or religion. Mostly it was about things that they thought was not right in the world that they lived in. It can also be found in art and music, just like in the picture above. This artwork represents Southern Gothic by Maggie Taylor.

"Southern Gothic." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009

"Grotesque." Def. 1. //Dictionary//. LLC, 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009.