AML 5267 Summer 2020 Mariano

This course takes a genre-based approach to the diverse and internally-conflicted fiction of the American South, from its traditional roots in nineteenth-century slave narratives and plantation romance, to the global registers and various media of its flourishing contemporary moment. Texts and topics survey broadly, but pay particular mind to the modes, mythologies, and organizing motifs that define southern literature’s romantic, gothic, and speculative forms.

In addition to rigorous preparation, in-class participation, and creation of pedagogical materials, the primary work of the course will be researching and writing a project proposal, accompanied by an extensive annotated bibliography.