A genre of literature named for this place was the idiom for writers such as Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor.
At the end of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Shreve asks Quentin Compson "why do you hate" this thing. In a short story by this name, Juan Dahlmann goes out to die in a knifefight. A genre of literature named for this place was the idiom for writers such as Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor. For 10 points, identify this American region, which names a kind of twentieth-century "gothic" literature.
At the end of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Shreve asks Quentin Compson "why do you hate" this thing.
the {south} [or the {Southern United States}, etc.]