Instructions: 

Read the theory and the texts to be ready to answer the questions in class.

Points to remember:

Major themes of Southern fiction: Southern tradition, Civil War, family, community, the land, history and the past, and race.

Southern fiction is hard to define: Writers born in that region do not write about it (Capote), while writers born elsewhere do (Poe), cultural and social shifts, redefinition of the canon (acceptance of African American writers, Hurston). 

Major representatives: William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy.  

Revision 2:

1. What are the main features of modernism? Which social aspects and theories influenced the rise of modernism? 

2. Define image. 

3. What was the aim of the Harlem Renaissance? Name at least two representatives. 

4. What were the major themes of Southern fiction? Name at least two representatives.