#southernamerican

[generallygothic]

"[𝕴]𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖞 𝖎𝖙𝖘 𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙, 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖍𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖑𝖘𝖔 𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊." - Teresa A Goddu 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Situated firmly in the Civil War’s south, the narrative events of William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ (1930) span roughly 70 years. The short story begins following the death of the titular Miss Emily Grierson who, born around the time of the Civil War, places the narrative present day around 1930. As mayor of the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, where the narrative is set, Colonel Sartoris is representative of former southern glory. He is the wealthy, powerful, white man; charming and problematic in equal measure. He is racist, and he looks favourably upon Miss Emily as a relic of these same elitist ideals. Miss Emily is a remnant of the past, now dead. Upon crossing the threshold of her private gothic space, the townsfolk’s impression of Miss Emily is shattered. In its place is a haunting reality – an image that grows more horrific the longer you look… I have put together a history of the American Civil War (which I appreciate will be very familiar to some of you, and totally new to others) to provide context for your responses to 'A Rose for Emily'. 🔗: link in bio, which includes prompts to get you thinking! I'd love to know what you thought of 'A Rose for Emily', of Miss Emily, of her house, of her hair... The PDF is still in bio - it's not too late to join! 🕷 📖The Readalong: Week 4📖 For the final week, I will be seeking southern god(s) in 'The Paperhanger', by William Gay (2000). Will you join me? 🔗: PDF in bio. . #southerngothic #southernspell #williamfaulkner #aroseforemily #southernamerican #southernliterature #americangothic #americanliterature #shortstory #faulkner #modernist #gothic #gothicliterature #bookworm #bookclub #bookish #bookstagram #readalong #bookclub #spookynerd #generallygothic #currentlyreading #williamgay #thepaperhanger #horror #bookreview #bookblogger #academia #darkacademia https://www.instagram.com/p/CDB-coLAAxS/?igshid=2ic3m6n6f1op

[thomaspoovathur]

Mac and Cheese Collard Greens and Smoked Turkey Chicken with Rutabaga, Green Beans and Maple Seasoning Shrimp and Greechie Boy Cheddar Grits #FirstTimeHere . . . . . #americansoutherncuisine #Southernclassics #grandmothersrecipe #virtuerestaurant #southernamerican #chicagomalayalee #chicagofoodauthority #cbchats #chicagogrammers #Chicago #strangefoodschicago #yelpchicago #chicagofoodie #mallufoodie #Chicagobucketlist #TommytheSwamy #multiplesclerosisfighter #AmericanMalayalee #chicagosbest #alwayshungrychi #chicagosbesttv #chicagoeats #checkpleasepics #hydeparkchicago #hydepark #chicagofood #sativa #blackowned #virtuerestaurantchi @virtuerestaurantchi Virtue Restaurant 1462 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615 www.virtuerestaurant.com (at Virtue Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/B59KcmdlEpn/?igshid=k89tf2rm4wxj

[feministbully]

are you okay friend?

I am okay I just kind of want to die which is normal for me so!!!!!!! Thanks for asking though I appreciate it.

[stepoutbuffalo]

Checked out @toutantbuffalo last night and fell in love with these hush puppies with brisket ends inside and homemade "ranch like" dipping sauce (and everything else we tried). I don't even like hush puppies......... #toutant #toutantbuffalo #ellicottstreet #buffalofood #buffalorestaurants #hushpuppies #southernfare #southernamerican #southernamericancuisine #buffaloeats #stepoutbuffalo #wny #westernnewyork (at Toutant)

[talesofaconfectionist]

So many restaurants so little time

Seems like a million and one restaurants have popped up in Canberra recently that I haven’t even HEARD of let alone get a chance to try it out. Have I been living under a rock? Well there is no time like the present to rectify the situation starting with Soulfood Kitchen tonight in Erindale.

[baberaham]

wayfaring stranger - jack white

[generallygothic]

Considered, by many historians, to be the first "true surrealist" photographer in the USA, Clarence John Laughlin (1905 - 1985) is best-known for photographing cemeteries, plantations, & abandoned buildings, primarily of Louisiana, but also of the broader American south. To me, this image entitled 'The Auto-Eroticists' (1941), evokes Flannery O'Connor's 'bird ladies' from the start of 'Wise Blood' (1952). What do you think? 📸: 'The Auto-Eroticists', Clarence John Laughlin, 1941, via The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southerngothicnovel #southerngothicliterature #southernamerican #louisiana #southerngothicphotography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #clarencejohnlaughlin #surrealism #surrealist #flanneryoconnorwiseblood #wiseblood #flanneryoconnor #surrealphotography #photography #photographer #americanphotography #academic #art https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzv44KvgBw9/?igshid=jzemp6isk5rv

[thomaspoovathur]

Chicken Tenders and Waffle . . . . . #ChickenandWaffles #SouthernAmerican #LemonHash #ILikeFoodChicago #ChicagoFoodMag #ElstonAve #chicagomalayalee #Brunch #asmr #yelpchicago #strangefoodschicago #EaterChicago #ChicagoBucketList #ChicagoFoodie #MalayaleeFoodie #GNPC #TommytheSwamy #multiplesclerosisfighter #AmericanMalayalee #mallugram #chicagogrammers #chicagofood #chicagoeats #nomchicago #Sauganash #SauganashChicago #Chicago #chicagofoodauthority #ChicagosBest #MotherCluckersKitchen @MotherCluckersKitchen Mother Cluckers Kitchen 5200 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60630 (at Mother Cluckers Kitchen Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvZc5w_HsVU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1odnt8y3d4cts

[generallygothic]

Born 1933, Cormac McCarthy is a genre-spanning American author, screenwriter, & playwright. You may recognise his work best in film - 'No Country for Old Men' (The Coen Bros., 2007), 'The Road' (John Hillcock, 2009), & 'Child of God' (James Franco, 2013) are all adaptations of his stories. 'All the Pretty Horses' (1992), also adapted for the big screen (Billy Bob Thornton, 2002), is a bildungsroman set in the late 1940s that follows a 16 year old Texan seeking a fresh start in Mexico. Against the unforgiving backdrop of the mountainous Mexican borderlands, 'All the Pretty Horses' maintains the 'frontier' atmosphere of early American novels and great Westerns. True to the Southern Gothic mode, it is a savage, brutal tale that positions violence, unglamourised, as a simple fact of the south. If that weren't enough, McCarthy adopts a similar stylistically dismissive approach to grammar & syntax as Faulkner; the result is poetic & exceptionally hard to beat. If it wasn't clear, 10/10, would recommend! . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southernamerican #southerngothicnovel #southerngothicliterature #cormacmccarthy #mccarthy #alltheprettyhorses #bloodmeridian #nocountryforoldmen #theroad #childofgod #western #gothicnovel #earlyamerican #frontier #mexico #coenbrothers #jamesfranco #billybobthornton #bookrecommendation #booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #bookcover #bookreview #books #academic https://www.instagram.com/p/Bztjt2UgrBv/?igshid=1vvjom97gvqsp

[generallygothic]

During this July-long 🥀Southern Spell🥀, we are exploring the Southern Gothic here at Generally Gothic. To do so, defining the Southern Gothic is essential. Whilst I will be publishing a blog post with greater detail, for those of you here/who prefer bite-sized chunks of info, I'll also be breaking it down into some key essentials. ••• The Southern Gothic is referred to as a literary genre in its own right, a subgenre (a sub-categorisation of the wider gothic genre), and a literary mode, which is a classification of identifying qualities shared by literary works that generally fit better within another, established genre. However you choose to classify it, the Southern Gothic is still popular with authors & audiences today. It began in nineteen century America, with author & poet, Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849). Singular in its geographical specificity, the themes of the genre (or subgenre, or mode!) are directly influenced by the tumultuous history of the American south - that is, the southern states of the USA. 🗓️To be continued... ❔Any questions so far? Anything particular you'd like covered throughout this month? Let me know! . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southernamerican #american #americansouth #americanliterature #englishliterature #literature #literary #edgarallanpoe #poe #southerngothicliterature #academic #bookworm #booknerd #house #americanarchitecture #calaverasbigtrees #bigtrees #calaveras #california #americanhistory #genrestudies #literarytheory #genre #mode #forest #houseinthewoods https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqiF8kgx0r/?igshid=woejjalstu1q

[generallygothic]

Died this day, 1962, firm Generally Gothic favourite & Southern Gothic great: William Faulkner. Born 1897, Faulkner authored poems, short stories, and a number of novels specifically set in the same fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, which was based upon his home county in Oxford, Mississippi. Of the Nobel Prize winning author's creative, modernist literary style, Southern Gothic contemporary Flannery O'Connor (see yesterday's post for more on her) competitively stated the following: "the presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down." It is, then, fair to say that the influence of Faulkner spread through his work to the Southern Gothic genre, and beyond to inspire his contemporaries, such as O'Connor, to be better writers. . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southerngothicliterature #gothicliterature #southernamerican #southernstates #williamfaulkner #faulkner #flanneryoconnor #americanliterature #literature #modernist #modernistliterature #quote #author #mississippi #yoknapatawpha #oxfordmississippi #literary #books #annotatedbooks #bookcover #bookworm #bookstagram #asilaydying #academic #sanctuary #thesoundandthefury https://www.instagram.com/p/BzmQbR4gm96/?igshid=b2jsdnqotjva

[generallygothic]

"Offering itself as the most grotesque work in all of Southern fiction, Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' is a novel only in the widest possible sense of the word. It is a prose fiction of considerable length, but beyond that requirement none of the standard elements of the novel is to be found. The development of character, the exploration of character interaction, and the development of plot are unimportant. Such action as occurs is often without motivation, leads nowhere, and is almost always absurd. Any resemblance to the world of objective reality is certainly incidental. Yet, when these things are said, the book still remains one of the most impressive creations of the School of the Grotesque, or School of Southern Gothic. That the book is rewarding despite its unconventionality can be attributed to the author's singular vision and style. Miss O'Connor several times commented upon her vocation: her mission, as she saw it, was to depict the reality of Christianity to an audience for whom nothing transempirical is real." - Lewis A. Lawson, 'Flannery O'Connor and The Grotesque: Wise Blood' in 'Renascence, Vol 17, Issue 3: Essays on Values in Literature' (1965). 📸: Via Pinterest - unknown artist. . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southerngothicliterature #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #southernamerican #theamericansouth #flanneryoconnor #gothicauthor #femalegothic #femaleauthor #wiseblood #flanneryoconnorwiseblood #religion #christianity #thegrotesque #grotesque #lewisalawson #literarycriticism #literarytheory #literature #literarycritic #pinterest #journal #literaryjournal #renascence #puppet #southernfiction https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzjzpq6AqJt/?igshid=8y0vkawmuh78

[generallygothic]

Photographer Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965) is best-known for her documentation of the human side of the Great Depression in the American South. Whilst the Great Depression had an effect on the global economy, it began in the United States in 1929 and continued into the 1930s. Based in San Francisco, Lange began her career with studio-based portrait photography. The Great Depression brought a new source of inspiration; with a gaze that has been compared to John Steinbeck's (1902 - 1968) 1939 novel 'The Grapes of Wrath' [Frederick Isaac, 1989], Lange turned to photojournalism. Focussing on the poverty inflicted upon Californians in rural, farming regions, her work brought government attention, and in turn aid, to the suffering. 📸: 'White Angel Breadline', Dorothea Lange, 1933. . #generallygothic #gothic #southernspell #southerngothic #southernamerican #dorothealange #greatdepression #americandepression #americansouth #california #farming #poverty #americanhistory #photography #photojournalism #whiteangelbreadline #johnsteinbeck #thegrapesofwrath #sanfransisco #economy #economicdepression #depression #blackandwhitephotography #1930s #1920s #portraiture #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/BzelkCZAZXh/?igshid=q1qrq8t8888h

[generallygothic]

"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not." - 'The Night Circus', Erin Morgenstern, 2012. And just as quietly, it picks up and moves away. June has ended, taking the 🎪Circus of Horrors🎪 with it - though there is more circusy content yet to appear on the blog. Now, that July has arrived and with it the sun, we're off for a🥀 Southern Spell🥀... ...wherein we'll be exploring the Southern Gothic. 📸: 'Payaso', Manuel Rose, 1947. . #generallygothic #gothic #circusofhorrors #circus #gothiccircus #southerngothic #fadedsouth #southernspell #july #summer #americansouth #southerncharm #southernamerican #southerngothicliterature #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #clown #payaso #manuelrose #rose #death #decay #thenightcircus #erinmorgenstern #quote #books https://www.instagram.com/p/BzY1ViqAg0g/?igshid=4o374omqil46

[generallygothic]

Rain clouds have descended over Generally Gothic HQ today. In case of pathetic fallacy seek shelter in a moody, steaming tub. The Generally Gothic Book Club is soaking up the southern American heat of 'Citrus County' - we're nearly half way! If you've read it/are reading it, share your thoughts and join the club! Link in bio. #generallygothic #gothic #generallygothicbookclub #gengobookclub #patheticfallacy #literarydevices #literary #bookworm #bookclub #gothicliterature #southerngothic #southernamerican #americanliterature #citruscounty #johnbrandon #contemporarygothic #bath #bathtub #tub #candles

[generallygothic]

Historian, James W. Cook credits Barnum as being an, if not the, central figure in the institutionalisation and commercialisation of ‘freakery’ as “a dominant theme in nineteenth century mass entertainment…” Read all about 'The Gothic History of the Great, American Freakshow' in this week's blog post - that last of the 🎪Circus of Horrors🎪 as it disappears into the dust and a 🥀Southern Spell🥀 befalls us. 🔗: Link in bio or head to generallygothic.com/blog 📸: 'Fat Lady' via Pinterest, author unknown. . #generallygothic #gothic #circusofhorrors #circus #circushistory #circusfreaks #freaks #freakshow #exploitation #gender #race #disability #ptbarnum #thegreatestshowman #poverty #americanhistory #americangothic #fourthofjuly #4thofjuly #july4th #july #summer #southernspell #southernamerican #southerngothic #blogger #newcontent #newblogpost #article #academic https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgPtIiAnt9/?igshid=1ppzsyg4drpt