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Instructors: Anne Bull
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.313
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 313
Requirements / organisational issues:
The memory of the Civil War has lingered unceasingly in the collective (white) mind of the post-war South and with it the ideology of the so-called Lost Cause of the Confederacy. A surge in literary output dominated by white, male authors has created enough nostalgic plantation fiction, idealizing the past and attempting to promote the Old South to Northern readers through romanticized narratives and images.
Despite all the ruthless efforts of the Jim Crow South to re-establish and maintain old power dynamics along perverted gender and racial binaries, not even the Deep South was entirely immune to social, political, and cultural change, and the approach of modernism. This reflects in the development of the Southern literary canon, as we will examine in this class. We will break with a traditionally white, male-dominated early canon and devote attention to often marginalized voices that have complicated, expanded, and diversified Southern literature after the Civil War.
Recommended reading list:
Required Material:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. C: 1865-1914 (Ninth edition):
ISBN: 978-0-393-26448-7
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. D: 1914-1945 (Ninth edition):
ISBN: 978-0-393-26449-4
Faulkner, William. The Unvanquished (Vintage; 1996 edition):
ISBN: 978-0099586012
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