ENGL 312 - Race, Place, and the US South

A study of literature of the U.S. South with attention to texts ranging from the colonial period to the contemporary moment. By assessing “southern literature” as a category with a particular history, students approach texts that issue from a region at a crossroads of circum-Atlantic commerce and culture, oppression and hope. Students explore texts in a variety of media and theorize them from a range of perspectives. Major figures include William Bartram, Pauline Hopkins, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Jesmyn Ward.

Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts CORE: None

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