"southeneres" - 1 õppematerjal

Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.

1865, for 15 years the south was occupie by the northern army. Then the southern became the colony of the north 1870's the southern became poor and abandoned. The poverty dominated the minds of poeple for several decades, it is the atmosphere where the authors grew up. The first world war marks 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,