[简答题]Analyze with textual examples the literary features of American Southern Literature.

参考答案:正确答案：Southern literature is defined as literature about the South of the United States or by writers from this region. Literary features of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one"s role within it, the region"s dominant religion and the burdens or rewards religion often brings, issues of rlcial tension, a sense of social class and place, the use of the Southern dialect and so on. Many of these features could be found in William Faulkner"s The Sound and Fury. The novel is set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which functions as an allegory or a parable of the South. The novel centers on the Compson family, the former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. The family falls victim to those vices such as racism, avarice, and selfishness. Over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith, and many of them die tragically. In The Sound and Fury, Faulkner used the South to talk about the violence and evil in human beings.