What Makes The Color Purple a Southern Novel? Southern Literature can be defined as writing about the South written by southern authors. However, novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man display characteristics linked to the southern imagination, but written by a non-southerner whose work considered part of the literary genre. Southern writing can also concern a southerner's experience elsewhere, but it can also include "a southerner's writing on a non-southern topic from a non-southern point of …showed first 75 words of 4865 total…

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