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Southern
Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect.
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Adult Novels Depicting the Black Experience in the Jim Crow South by African-Americans
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Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.
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― The Untidy Pilgrim
― The Untidy Pilgrim
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Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.
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