AML 5027 Spring 2024 - Roberts
The white South didn’t invent slavery, Jim Crow, the white lady on her pedestal, or violence against Black men. But the South codified—sometimes in statute—rigid gender, race, and class roles, creating a highly-articulated vocabulary for how a white supremacist America defined itself, becoming the location of the nation’s guilt, rage, class struggles, and fear of the Other. Texts for this course will include (among others) Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, and Go Down, Moses, as well as Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Octavia Butler’s Kindred.
Requirements: This course fulfills the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Post-1900 Literature and Culture; a Literary Genre (Fiction).