Problem 1: Through literary genres like the noir and Southern Gothic, public memory has been shaped and informed by the grotesque and aberrant so that popular obsessions like Dark tourism, as Tiya Miles asserts, which sells slavery and recomobifies the bodies of the deceased slave, twists the perception of reality, buries again the struggles, pain and losses of the deceased slave under a narrative of tradition. Describe how Southern Gothic subverts this narrative that Dark tourism promotes.
Problem 2: In a short essay describe in what ways Dinner at Antoine's qualifies as "good trash" and worthy of inclusion in a course on Noir and the Southern Gothic? In what ways is it "bad trash"? Why does this novel not qualify as great literature?