I love southern gothic so fucking much lads. I love reading about declining aristocracy who are powerless in the face of an ever modernising world and people haunted by the past to the point it corrupts their present and future. I've blitzed through Sound and the Fury, As I lay Dying, and I'm halfway through Absalom, Absalom! What else should I look at? I'm planning on reading Child of God, Outer Dark and probably Flannery O'Connor as well. It sort of takes me out though when things get "too" modern.
>>25334726Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Also read Harry Crews: A Feast of Snakes.
>>25334726Go older with Mark Twain. Often looking at it before the decline will enhance the story of the decline.
outer dark isnt southern gothic
This is how I imagine all American Southerners>weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll sir I don't know how you big city /v/ posters are, but here in /lit/ we do things a bit differently, yes sir
>>25334759It is. Stop being a pseud.
>>25334763I love plantation pepe
snopes trilogy
>>25334763You forgot>I do declare And some Cornwall(?) speech patterns.
>>25334726Faulkner is just Push by Sapphire but about southerners. and it was celebrated by “the literary community” (northern white and jewish publishers, critics, academics) for the same reason: it made the reader feel sympathetically superior to its subjects. similar story for mark twain. he was basically just the steven colbert of his day.
>>25335287>Cornwall(?) It's less Cornish per se and more archaic in general. We here in the South are the only significant bastion of anglo-american heritage and culture left in the US. My zoomer crackhead neighbour actually said the sentence "I don't <X> but once a week" (that sounds very archaic to me) and my mom says things like "I tasted of it" and some other Shakespeare like construction I can't remember. We still pronounce, softly, the ƕ sound in most words with wh. I traced our history back and, other than some g*rman corruption, all branches came from the Welsh marches and the Midlands, and they all arrived to the colonies (there are basically no post independent arrivals) in the late 1600s or early 1700s. The southern Highlands have more heritage from the north of England and Northern Ireland, and the culture is a bit different. I have some of that on my grandmother's side—and they seem to have been descended from Norse settlers in York, given how my cousin is apparently mostly Norwegian by blood according to a DNA test—but my family is mostly from the foothills not the mountains.
>>25335375Yes Colbert's based
>>25335393Colbert and Twain were both midwits but the later is infinitely more talented
>>25334753Solid advice here. Twain also has some of the best accounts of the southwest, mostly in the 1860s when it was still very, very wild.
>>25334759Y'ain't from 'round here, are ya boy?
>>25334726I dunno if it's gothic but I like Carson McCullers short stories.
