Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
the transition. Southern school of American literature.
Features: 1. southereners are extremely critical, especially for the hatred for the yankees. 2.
From the point of view of literature method, southeneres are strongly influenced by the
modernisms. The southern myth- according to this myth, before the civil war southereners
were commonios nation with almost greek democracy which means that it was heavily
romanticised. According to the myth there were beautiful planters, all the ladys wore belles,
they were all beautiful and young and blonde, all the men wore beauxs, noble and honest and
so on. They thought of themselves as aristocrats, compared to the barbarians in the north,
everything was perfect and in its place. The poor white people were white trash and slaves.
Everything was in its place, in reality this myth was far from the truth. Slavery cant be part of
harmonius society, these planters were drunkers, chased ladys, raped slaves, and so to the