ENG 218 - Reading the South

1 course unit

This course will study how novelists, poets, and playwrights have treated the American South, and the extent to which they have challenged or fostered prevailing popular representations in songs and movies and political rhetoric (e.g. Dixie, down-home, Jim Crow, “a civilization gone with the wind”). We will consider how their work addresses what ideologues and historians have characterized as the “peculiar” political and social conditions that have made the South distinctive: slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath.
Meets departmental Text/Contexts approach.
Meets general academic requirements HU and W .