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This course will adopt a cultural-studies approach, using literary texts as a means of exploring the culture of the American South. We will examine how factors such as an agricultural economy, institutionalized slavery, the American Civil War, and poverty have shaped the culture of the American South.
Texts required:
- Literature of the American South, edited by William Andrews, Norton 1997
- As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, Vintage 1991
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Perennial 2006
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, Farrar 2007.
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