Distinct regional literary schools were formed after the Civil War in the United States. The so-called “New Orleans School” was the most original among them. Its leaders were women who not only responded to the burning questions of life in the post-war South with its trauma of having lost, but also raised important questions related to the self-identification of a woman. A significant contribution to the development of regional literature was made by Grace King, whose work reflected the feeling of an irretrievably lost paradise, nostalgia for a seemingly harmonious past, the difficulty of a southerner’s adapting to the requirements of the new time. The article deals with the collection of short stories by G. King “Balcony Stories”, demonstrating the specifics of Southern literature both in thematic and narrative aspects.
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Morozova I.V. Women’s world in post-war Louisiana’s “Paradise Lost”: Grace King’s “Balcony Stories”, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 2, pp. 21—29.