ENGL 3216 - Southern Literature SW

3 hours

Prerequisites: A grade of “C-“or better in ENGL 2110 or ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2210 or ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or CRWT 2601.
Co-requisite: May take ENGL 2110, ENGL 2120, ENGL 2210,ENGL 2220, ENGL 2310, or ENGL 2320 as a co-requisite rather than as a prerequisite with permission of the English Department The Southern United States is often distinguished from the rest of the United States as a culture of history and memory in a “great nation of futurity” as John L. O’Sullivan described it in the mid-nineteenth century. Today we know that there are many histories and memories associated with the literatures of the U.S. South. This course examines relationships among a number of literary traditions: the literatures of slavery (plantation fiction and slave narratives); the literatures of pastoral (local color, Civil War fiction, Southern agrarianism, and Southern modernism); counter-pastoral literature (Old Southwest humor, counter-pastoral fiction and the Southern grotesque).