Lowe, John
TR 2 :00 PM
Park Hall 0250
GEORGIA LITERATURE
This course will explore the dazzling literary output of our state, from Native American creation stories to the current day. Our survey will consider comic tales of the old Southwest, narratives of slavery, black folklore, and Confederate poetry. While we will read other poems and portions of memoirs, our major focus will be on the twentieth century short story and novel. Authors will include Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, W. E. B. DuBois, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Lillian Smith, Martin Luther King, Carson McCullers, John O. Killens, Raymond Andrews, James Dickey, and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Course requirements: midterm, final exam, two papers (one involving research). The course will involve archival research at the Hargrett Rare Book Library on our campus.