Group: 204 rus course paper

THE SAMARKAND STATE INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
ENGLISH FACULTY I
The Department of English Literature and History

Group: 204 RUS

COURSE PAPER

THEME: SOUTHERN SCHOOL OF AMERICAN WRITERS

CHECKED BY: Timur Sulaymanov

DONE BY: Bobomurodov Asadbek

Contents

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………… 3
Main Part
1.1 Characteristics of Southern Literature ......................................................4
1.3 Sauth American writers and their well-known novels during the civil war ……………5
1.4 The contribution of Mark Twain and his novel " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn " ……..8
1.4 The contribution of Henry Timrod to Sauth
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
The list of used literature……………………………………………………………………………………………………..


Introduction
Southern United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region. Literature written about the American South first begun during the colonial era, and developed significantly during and after the period of . Traditional historiography of Southern United States literature emphasized a unifying history of the region; the significance of family in the South's culture, a sense of community and the role of the individual, justice, the dominance of Christianity and the positive and negative impacts of religion, racial tensions, social class and the usage of local dialects [1][2][3] . However, in recent decades, the scholarship of the New Southern Studies has decentralized these conventional tropes in favor of a more geographically, politically, and ideologically expansive "South" or "Souths" .[4] Southern literature has been described by scholars as occupying a liminal space within wider American culture.
 After the American Revolution, writers in the U.S. from outside the South frequently othered Southern culture, in particular slavery, as a method of "[standing] apart from the imperial world order". [6] These negative portrayals of the American South eventually diminished after the abolition of slavery in the U.S., particularly during a period after the Spanish-American War when many Americans began to re-evaluate their anti-imperialistic views and support for imperialism grew. Changing historiographical trends have placed racism in the American South as emblematic of, rather than an exception to, U.S. racism as a whole.
In addition to the geographical component of Southern literature, certain themes have appeared because of the similar histories of the Southern states in regard to American slavery, the Civil War, and the reconstruction era. The conservative culture in the American South has also produced a strong focus within Southern literature on the significance of family, religion, community in one's personal and social life, the use of Southern dialects,  and a strong sense of "place {8} The South's troubled history with racial issues also continually appears in its literature. {9} Despite these common themes, there is debate as to what makes a literary work {11}Southern." For example, Mark Twain, a Missourian, defined the characteristics that many people associate with Southern writing in his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Truman Capote, born and raised in the Deep South, is best known for his novel In Cold Blood, a piece with none of the characteristics associated with "southern writing."