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Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic writer's inspiration Ah

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la shmoop okay so tell us about the writers that

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southern gothic has has has emanated from I take it

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they're all from the south They had alcoholic parents Like

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how did how did there How to their voice find

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itself in our lexicon How did writers find their inspiration

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So uh some of the big names in southern gothic

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are lame talk there He was born in mississippi graze

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there his entire life And he began writing in the

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nineteen twenties You know uh post civil war us south

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of the south is dealing with all kinds of messy

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situations Post reconstruction There is a whole new world around

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them that many of the southerners aren't ready to accept

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yet Okay so we think about faulkner is having an

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invented this style What are the core Three or four

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issues He referee what issues shaped faulkner's Writing one of

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the first and foremost issues of southern gothic is going

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to be race We're set here in post civil war

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post reconstruction south For the most part jim crow laws

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Very tough work environment for everyone let alone african americans

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Exactly on dh embedded racism In the system in exactly

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and speaking of tough working conditions economic crises of the

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south In that era no one was having an easy

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time Everyone was struggling to make ends meet and that

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was having a huge influence on everything coming out of

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south artistically at the time You could also say that

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the fact that the south was not ready to catch

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up to these changes put them at a social disadvantage

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The people who are who are living there weren't as

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up to date is other people might ban or seen

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them as how did writers find their inspiration What issues 00:02:13.695 --> [endTime] shaped faulkner's writing

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