1. Works in the same literary movement would most likely share which of the following characteristics?
<u>Concerns</u>
A literary movement compasses a variety of authors, usually of an specific period of time, that have in common similar concerns, or ideas, that are the main subject of their works. Such as the Regionalism movement, explained below.
2. Which literary movement began just after the Civil War?
<u>Regionalism</u>
Regionalism after Civil War, also known as "Local color", was a literary movement that flourished in the U.S., especially in the Southern states, in the 1860s, at a time when the nation was increasingly moving toward and industrialization and the nationalist spirit became more relevant than the regional spirit.
In this context, this literary movement surged as an as an attempt to preserve simple times and faraway places, as a way to provide a nostalgic memory of times gone by, and, very often, as a way to provide an idealization of the way things could have been before the war: with noble slave-owners, happy slaves, beautiful maidens, etc.
It was characterized for having short stories, with a rural style of writing, that depicted characters of a particular region, the peculiarities of dialect, manners, folklore, and landscape that distinguished a specific area, often providing exotic and quaint characteristics of the place.
