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The Literature of the South is a compilation of authors who wrote in the South during their lives.We read from authors such as O'Connor, Faulkner, and Hurston.  We learn lots of different things about history, government, and the economy post Civil War in the South. For example we see that the South does not actually include all of the territories that seceded from the Union during the Civil War. (Reed, 455). Also the legend of the south is said to have been dissolved after the Civil War (Cash 456), but the legends that are spoken of are not real by any means hence why they are legends (Cash 456). We also learn about how hard the South had to work to be able to keep up with the rest of America after the war. (Howe 459). We also see that the basis of writing in the South is the defeating of their homeland (Howe 459).