Petty, Leslie2013-01-302013-01-302012-08-22http://hdl.handle.net/10267/15215This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor. Uploaded by Archives RSA Josephine Hill.When Shreve McCannon, a northerner, asks Quentin Compson, the displaced Mississippian in Faulkner‟s Absalom, Absalom!, to “tell [him] about the South,” he is articulating the enduring desire (and dilemma) of all Southern writers. How does one define the South, after all? Is it a region? A culture? A historical construct? And perhaps, more to the point, who or what is a Southerner? The literature that we‟ll read this semester will offer no easy answers, but it will reveal an enduring set of concerns. Questions of identity are at the heart of Southern writing – regional and national identities of course, but also individual identities. A heightened awareness of the complexities of race, gender, class and even sexuality is one of the hallmarks of this literary tradition. Thus, we‟ll investigate the construction and complexities of Southern identity in literature, beginning with post-Civil debates about the New South, then reading several works from the Southern Renascence, the unprecedented flowering of literary production in the 30s, 40s and 50s. We‟ll end by reading Can’t Quit You, Baby, a more contemporary book that grapples with the recent legacy of race, gender and class identity in the South.en-USRhodes College owns the rights to the archival digital images in this collection. Objects are made available for educational use only and may not be used for any non-educational or commercial purpose. Approved educational uses include private research and scholarship, teaching, and student projects. Original copies of the programs are stored in the Rhodes College Archives. In all instances of use, acknowledgement must be given to Rhodes College Archives Digital Repository, Memphis, TN. For information regarding permission to use this image, please email the Archives at archives@rhodes.eduEnglish, Department ofSyllabusAcademic departmentsCurriculumText2014 SpringSyllabus