/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19893723]

Anyone have a chart or list for best Southern lit?

[Anonymous No.19893841]

Anything William Faulkner, Cormack McCarthy, or Jefferson Davis probably. Also MLK's Letter From Bermingham jail

[Anonymous No.19893845]

>>19893841
mccarthy is western int he?

[Anonymous No.19893852]

>>19893723
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
that's all you need baby

[Anonymous No.19893863]

>>19893845
McCarthy was pretty much born and raised in Tennessee. He moved out west later in life.

[Anonymous No.19893869]

>>19893845
Western is just southern culture spread west

[Anonymous No.19893873]

>>19893869
i dont think i agree with that

[Anonymous No.19893895]

I'll Take My Stand

Mel Bradford / The Southern Agrarians

[Anonymous No.19893938]

>>19893852
No Sherwood Anderson, no Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.19893947]

Did Faulkner add a u to his name because of a typographical error, or to sound more British?

Was he rejected from the US air force for being short, or is that a rumor?

[Anonymous No.19893957]

>>19893938
Anderson was from the midwest

[Anonymous No.19893959]

>>19893947
Supposedly it was a typo and Faulkner just rolled with it. As for being rejected that's false. He did join the RAF though.

[Anonymous No.19893965]

>>19893723
John Ehle
>>19893957
Anderson is pretty much the source of southern gothic, Winesburg, Ohio set the mold and his mentorship of Faulkner was just as important to the movement. I would not have suggested it for this thread but if you are going to get into southern gothic than you should read Anderson, especially Winesburg, Ohio.

[Anonymous No.19893968]

>>19893957
Still read Winesburg, Ohio. Some trappings of southern gothic popularized by Faulkner were inspired by it.

[Anonymous No.19894073]

>>19893873
It's overly simplistic. I'm a bit drunk

[Anonymous No.19895685]

>>19893852
Harry Crews
Flannery O'Connor
Eudora Welty
You can probably construct a decent chart using:
>https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/125+Great+Southern+Books
>https://www.listchallenges.com/a-southern-list-125-great-southern-books
James Agee

[Anonymous No.19895974]

William Gilmore Simms was a well known novelist, historian, and poet from the antibellum South. I haven’t read him personally.

Donald Davidson was the most based of the Agrarians/Fugitives. His poem “Sequel to Appomattox” is a stirring endorsement of the reconstruction-era Klan.

Father Abram Ryan was Poet Laureate of the Confederacy. Changed his name from Abraham to Abram because of his disdain for Lincoln.

Raphael Semmes was the most unreconstructed of the Rebs and his memoir of the war touches on everything from early American history to marine biology.

Below are some sadly overlooked Southern writers who mostly focused on the outdoors:

Archival Rutledge (first Poet Laureate of SC)
Havilah Babcock
Nash Buckingham
Robert Ruark

Modern day we Larry Brown and Tito Perdue. If you liked Confederacy of Dunces and/or McCarthy’s dialogue, you’ll surely like Perdue. L2t8tv

[Anonymous No.19896037]

A 100% must read for my fellow dixie is "in defense of virginia." Also "the south was right" is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.19896049]

>>19893869
Tbh there is a great overlap specially after the civil war many southerns left and populated Midwest states to start over.

[Anonymous No.19896086]

Weirdly Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams have't been mentioned yet.

And Faulkner is trash btw.

[Anonymous No.19896291]

>>19893723
I think that Flannery O'Connor deserves a special mention for depictions of the 20th century south. Her works depicitng the peculiar ethics formed by revival protestantism must be read if one wanted to understand southern culture.

[Anonymous No.19896317]

>>19893895
>The Southern Agrarians
shhhh that is too based for /lit/, I don't want them to ruin it

[Anonymous No.19896328]

>>19896291
>peculiar ethics
Lol wat? Like not raping children? If any sect of Christianity were ever to be described as morally ambiguous, it would be the Catholics.

[Anonymous No.19896405]

>>19896328
I am not going to start debating you on the faults of protestantism, but Flannery does a great job at criticizing their supposed morality and shown it for the falsehood that it is. She is like Faulkner in that sense

[Anonymous No.19896425]

>>19896405
>criticizing their supposed morality and shown it for the falsehood that it is.

A direct quote from the letters of Ms O'Connor,

>“You know, I’m an integrationist by principle & a segregationist by taste anyway. I don’t like negroes. They all give me a pain and the more of them I see, the less and less I like them. Particularly the new kind.”

Is this the sort of false morality that O'Connor criticises in her work?

[Anonymous No.19896612]

>>19896425
Lol why are you using one single sentence in that letter to try to prove that she is a racist or some shit? Give it context, motherfucker. She is talking about niggas like James Baldwin and the like, with their inferiority complex.

[Anonymous No.19896646]

>>19896612
Ok, it was a letter to her friend, Maryat Lee, concerning the the Democrat led a filibuster in the Senate to block the Civil Rights Act.

She wanted to block the Civil Rights Act.

Now, if you want to read O'Connor to understand racism in Southern culture, from the perspective of a racist, then go for it. But there are many other writers of her time that were able to depict the South unblemished by these peculiar ethics. The special mention she is given is undeserved.

[Anonymous No.19896995]

>>19895685
Based and Welty-pilled.

Also add: Thomas Wolfe and James Dickey. I would say Walker Percy but I havent read him yet, his interviews sound like he voiced Southern alienation to modernity very well.

[Anonymous No.19897343]

Margaret Mitchell

[Anonymous No.19897474]

>>19893723
Shelby Foote

[Anonymous No.19897530]

>>19893723

[Anonymous No.19897597]

>>19897530
>nonfic
cringe

[Anonymous No.19898060]

>>19897530
that's more like the "Lost Cause" Canon