The article considers the theme of American South in Caroline Gordon’s «None Shall Look Back» (1937). As many Southern writers of 1930s (S. Young, A. Lytle, A. Tate, M. Mitchell, W. Faulkner), C. Gordon felt nostalgia for the patriarchal South and was sure that the Civil war of 1861 - 1865 was the region’s tragedy. She tried to create her own history of the South, show not only the plantations, landscapes, and daily routine of their inhabitants but also people in battlefields. The aim of the paper is to determine the place of «None Shall Look Back» in Southern literary tradition of 1930s. In its ideology, topics and system of images the novel fits into Southern literary canon. The motifs of doom and fatality are prevailing in the text. Gordon did not get over the Southern mythology, but her novel may be of great interest for historians and literary critics.
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