AML 4261 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 with particular emphasis on the modes, mythologies, and organizing motifs that define southern literature’s romantic, gothic, and speculative forms.

Coursework includes a lot of reading and in-class participation, several short papers, writing and revision workshops, an annotated bibliography, and reading exams.