Ingle, Jonathan
MWF 3 :00 PM
Park Hall 0139
Though every region of the United States has its literary traditions, the American South has long been known as a land of storytellers like no other. Though the tradition is rich and deep, it is also problematic, and Southern writers have always wrestled with these troubled legacies. In this course we'll study a broad range of Southern literature, including (but not limited to) Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Frederick Douglass, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Kate Chopin, Henry Grady, H.L. Mencken, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, Lillian Smith, Walker Percy, Barry Hannah, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, and others.