LITR332

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SOUTHERN AMERICAN WRITERS

Literature (LITR) Humanities and Global Studies

Course Description

(Formerly LITR 333) This course will examine the rich diversity of literature by writers of the American south from the 1800s to the present in prose, short and long fiction, poetry, and drama. Themes such as racial conflict, attitudes towards women, nature as a defining force, and others will form a basis for exploring such authors as Faulkner, Welty, Warren, Gaines, Hurston, O'Connor, and others.

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Course Attributes

MJ-AMER-Advanced Cat Elective (AMRB), MJ-AMER-Amer Artistic Express (AMRA), MJ-AMER-Amer Literature (AM10), MJ-AMER-Amer. Regionalism (AMR7), MJ-Africana Studies (AFS1), MJ-Amer-Amer Regionalism (AM15), MJ-LITR-American Literature (LITA), MN-Africana Studies (AFS2)