AML 4261 Mariano Spring 2021

This course takes a historical and theoretical approach to the study of Southern literature and culture, beginning in the colonial era and continuing to the present. We will direct focus first onto the peculiar genres that were produced in and by writers of the American South, among them slave narrative, plantation romance, local color writing, the Southern gothic, and grit lit; and we will situate these writers and genres in their complicated relationships with the rest of the United States, and with transnational, hemispheric, global, and planetary contexts and concerns. hemispheric, and global contexts and concerns.