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Anonymous Wed Feb 12 10:54:20 2020 No.14710924 [Reply] [Original]

How come the only good literature out of the USA is southern?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 10:56:52 2020 No.14710935 >>14710924 Steinbeck was from California, which isn't considered the south. Also, most of the good American literature came out of the northeast and midwest.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 11:11:15 2020 No.14711024 >>14710924 That’s only if you’re a big fan of incest and grits

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 11:23:10 2020 No.14711098 File: 40 KB, 323x412, soy #237.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14711024 >t.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 11:23:28 2020 No.14711101 File: 57 KB, 308x475, 16041828.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ahem

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 11:37:59 2020 No.14711198 >>14710924 Melville wasn’t Southern though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 11:50:19 2020 No.14711273 For whites in the usa its probably our most unique culture desu. Saying this as a yank

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 14:56:31 2020 No.14712471 >>14710924 The best literature mostly came from the South and New England which happen to be the epicenters for American culture. New England is similar to British/French lit. The South is similar to Russian/German lit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 14:58:27 2020 No.14712484 >>14712471 >New England is similar to British/French lit. >The South is similar to Russian/German lit. Not perfect but good comparison. I love Russian literature and find so many similarities to the American south lit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:01:24 2020 No.14712512 >>14710924 DFW didn't live in the south

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:01:42 2020 No.14712516 >>14710924 Literally the most Californian writer ever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:02:52 2020 No.14712522 >>14711198 Didn't he say in a gay love letter to Hawthorne that he was happy Hawthorne had planted his seed on Melville's southern soul or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:03:10 2020 No.14712524 >>14711024 >south >incest epic bro you got em

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:26:35 2020 No.14712696 >>14710924 you misspelled the northeast

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:51:13 2020 No.14712836 >>14712471 Makes sense actually. What is West Coast lit like OP then?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:53:17 2020 No.14712845 >>14712471 Southern lit is nothing like German lit. More like Russian/Hungarian lit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 15:59:08 2020 No.14712884 >>14711024 threw away all my grits

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 12 18:10:56 2020 No.14713627 File: 1.06 MB, 3500x2400, 3AC1D022-EFC5-49B3-8D80-18ACAB42B2C6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14710924 >Faulkner >Twain >Confessions of Nat Turner >Sophie’s Choice >Anne Frank pregnancy erotica How do they do it lads