Southern Ontario Gothic narratives‘ stock characters are portrayed as other, as different from the rest of society. The constructive elements which build the framework of the Southern Ontario Gothic encompass the specific haunted setting which is comprised of typical Southern locales immersed in the distinct Southern atmosphere.
Consequently, the Southern Ontario Gothic narrative constructs, exemplified and analyzed in the four narratives in question, are based on the Canadian literary theory as well as the American Southern Gothic literary practice. The term ―the Southern Gothics‖ has been coined for the purpose of this thesis and refers to both genres together with their common features.
the term that transgresses the boundaries of one genre (the American Southern Gothic). Because of that the thesis supports the idea of Southern Gothicism as an umbrella term for the Southern Ontario Gothic and the Southern Gothic, i.e. The thesis also deals with the problematic behind defining these Gothic subgenres and supports the notion that Canadian Southern Ontario Gothic and the American Southern Gothic, despite being two separate genres, share all features of Southern Gothicism.
The framework of the Southern Ontario Gothic is set in comparison with the American Southern Gothic, showing that these two independent Gothic subgenres share the same narrative constructs. The thesis offers the definition of the Southern Ontario Gothic as a genre by exemplifying its narrative constructs in three novels: Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), Margaret Atwood's Surfacing (1972), Barbara Gowdy's Falling Angels (1989) and a collection of short stories – Alice Munro's Who Do You Think You Are? (1978).
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