ENGL 248 - Imagining the American South

Institution:

Wesleyan University

Subject:

English

Description:

The American South has long been set aside in the national imagination as a particular--and, in many ways, peculiar--segment of the country. But why is this so? What makes the South necessarily different--if we assent to this difference at all? This course will examine a diverse series of representations of the American South, and will chart its development (and the concurrent development of its literature) over the past century. In the first section of the course, we will explore a set of competing, and often conflicting, images of what the South is and what it means; we will consider how widely the experience of the South varies with sex, race, and socioeconomic class. The second section of the course will take up the complex and colorful tradition of the Southern family, in all its (sometimes dysfunctional) glory. In the third and final section, we will examine images of Southern "expatriates"--characters who have abandoned their sub-Mason-Dixon roots and relocated elsewhere.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wesleyan.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 685-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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