Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, country music, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the American South. Common themes of Southern Gothic include storytelling of deeply flawed, disturbing, or eccentric characters sometimes suffering from physical deformities or insanity; decayed or derelict settings and grotesque situations;[1] and sinister events bred from poverty, alienation, crime, violence, forbidden sexuality, or hoodoo magic.[2]
- ^ Bloom, Harold (2010). The Ballad of the Sad Cafe – Carson McCullers. pp. 95–97.
- ^ Merkel, Julia (2008). Writing against the Odds. pp. 25–27.