Southern Gothic The Civil War was a period of turmoil in American history due to disagreement on the roll slavery should play in society. After five years of fighting, African American, or black, slaves were freed which in result led to segregation between blacks and whites (United States). The segregation caused by the Civil War led to a writing period known as Southern Gothic. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines Southern Gothic as, “a style of writing practiced by many writers of the American
America and in Harlem during the 1930’s. During this time in history, black were subject to racial segregation and discrimination. Racial tensions between whites and blacks were more prominent due to events such as the Great Depression and the Great Migration which had a huge impact on social ideologies. The social backdrop allows Ellison to incorporate the issues of 1930s American, in order to allow him to employ the significance of personal identity in a society in which individuality is supressed
The beach has played an important role of cultural expression for individuals throughout Australian history. Until the late 1980’s the beach was considered less significant than the bush. However, researches Fisk, Hodge & Turner (1987) noticed a shift toward the beach and challenged this space in the Myths of Oz. No longer was the beach regulated to hedonic popular culture, rather it had become legitimately an important place, moulding the Australian identity known today. Popular culture as defined