From South to South: A Study of Southern Poetry

Abstract

Even though in Iran an organized research has not been taken on “Southern Poetry”, and it has not been seriously discussed as a literary movement that has brought about particular issues of social movements; in the United States, however, it has been referred to and followed as a serious branch of literature for years. The literary magazine Southern Literary Journal, for instance, has been active in this field for more than forty years. This paper intends to take a look at the literature of Latin American, Southern America, Southern African Sahara and Southern Iran and analyze shared and similar attitudes among Southerners in Southern areas across the world.