Southern Literary Messenger

The divide between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres has developed into a problem where the Southern Hemisphere is becoming further behind on the economic and social scale because they are less developed. As the Northern Hemisphere exploits and profits off the raw goods that the South produces. This creates a gap where they North is always expanding its economy and the Southern Hemisphere is currently staying in the same place. This system favors the countries that have the ability to…

writing style comes to mind when one thinks of racial bigotry, violence, and outsiders? Some may think of Southern Gothic literature, a writing style that focuses on grotesque themes and characters. Harper Lee uses this writing style in her book To Kill a Mockingbird: a story about a white lawyer who must defend a black client who is on trial for a rape. In her book Harper Lee uses Southern Gothic characteristics such as, racial bigotry, violence, and outsiders to create the environment of the…

Sudan has been at war from almost the moment it gained its independence in 1956. Its first civil war lasted from 1962 to 1972. In 1983 civil war breaks out once again and this lasted until 2005. In 2006 the peace is broken and numerous clashes between rival factions kill hundreds, if not thousands of people, between 2006 to 2012. In 2011, the government of South Sudan took a vote to become an independent country. Since the separation of the two countries, South Sudan began experiencing conflict…

Southern Gothic Literature has shaped American Literature throughout traits such as disturbed personalities, macabre situations, and moral blindness. Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil”, and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” all portray these traits. Unlike American Literature, Southern Gothic Literature focuses on the disturbed personalities, and macabre/grotesque situations. We learn about the moral blindness found in the South.…

“A Long Walk To Water,” a book about two kids who have obstacles to overcome. This amazing novel was written by the Newbery Medalist, Linda Sue Park. Who also wrote,” One Single Shard and Seesaw Girl.” Linda Sue Park writes realistic fiction. This story is about Salva Dut, a boy who is part of the dinka and separated from his family at a young age, due to war. And about Naya, a girl who is part of the nuer tribe, and has to walk eight hours a day to get water for her family, that isn’t even…

limiting their supplies. The people of south sudan had to have confidence, persistence and hope. The book Long Walk to Water written by Linda Sue Park has two main characters, Salva and Nya. The book follows their story through different time periods in Southern Sudan. Salvas life is affected in 1987 by warfare. Nyas life is affected by the lack of water and food and having to journey every day on foot to get unsanitary water. Salva and Nya persist through life threatening events and are able…

American Literature was shaped in part by the traditions of the Southern Gothic Genre. Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature, it focuses on many topics such as death, madness, and the supernatural as well as had many mystical, violent, and grotesque aspects. The traits of this genre include Race/Class/ Social Structure, unrequited love, good vs evil, being an outsider, and violence. Three important short stories are Possibility of Evil, A Good Man is…

yet most of the money goes towards the 1%, and select political leaders, such as President Ali Bongo (McLure, 2012). This region looks economically hopeful, yet at the current outlook, disparity of wealth and corruption run rampant (McLure, 2012). Southern Africa is comprised of the continent’s most wealthy and economically integrated nations, flourishing economically from gem-trading (McLure, 2012). Exports to foreign nations (notably the EU and China) will help their slowly emerging economy,…

the United States were the Italians. Immigration from Italy to the United States included all of Southern Italy from Abruzzi and Calabria all the way to Sicily. Italy at the time it was once…

Violence in the Works of Flannery O’Connor “First responses to O’Connor are invariably extreme. Forgetting about the stoning of St. Stephen or Herod’s slaughter of the innocents or even the cross itself, many first-time readers of O’Connor, knowing that she is a Christian writer, re puzzled by her grotesqueries and the violence of her vision. The problem is, of course, that most readers possess flimsy ideas about what is “Christian” literature and what is not” (Baumgaertner 19). Flannery…