LITR247

In this course students will encounter a range of voices, genres and forms encompassing works which provide insight into the ethical and moral questions enmeshed within the cultures of the American South. Critical to this course is an examination of how the South’s inequitable distribution of power is reflected in regional attitudes toward racial, gender, religious, class, and sexual identities. Spanning from the antebellum period to the deluge of Hurricane Katrina and beyond, this course requires that students become conversant with emerging and persisting questions regarding culture, nation, and collective and individual identity.