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This course covers novels, short stories, slave narratives, plays and memoirs from an American region known for its history of slavery and racism, its pronounced cooking styles, its strong sense of family, religion, and especially of place (the "land of cotton," "blue grass," "red hills and cotton," "Dixie") as well as a robust tradition of oral folk literature. Gothic and grotesque aspects of the South and its nostalgia for a sometimes still idealized ante-bellum world of plantations will be explored. Among the writers we will cover are Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Anne Moody, Ben Robertson, and Dorothy Allison. A reader will be provided, but students should purchase the following: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (also available free online) Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton |
