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The American South

En side om de amerikanske sydstater, inspireret af materiale om 'The Southern Literary Tradition' - indsendt af Kirsten Fisher fra Haderslev Katedralskole.

The American South

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The Southern Literary Tradition

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there … (William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!)

Background material on the South and Southern Literature: Veronica Makowski, What Is Southern Literature and Wikipedia Southern Identity Background material from George B. Tindall and David Shi, America, 1989 "The Old South: An American Tragedy".
The course is to introduce students to the Southern literary tradition. It will focus on the central cultural and historical aspects of the American South, from antebellum plantation life, based on the institution of slavery, and the conflicts, myths and codes generated by this period of Southern history, to the modern South.
The texts chosen reflect the richness of the Southern literary tradition and introduce you to some of America's finest authors.

Jeg har lavet dette forløb om the Southern literary tradition som måske kan være af interesse. Det er et A-niveau forløb som kan dække bekendtgørelseskategorien "væsentlige strømninger i (britisk og) amerikansk litteraturhistorie".

Læs mere om The Southern Literary Tradition…

I. The Old South: Antebellum Society, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Photos by O'Sullivan from the Civil War.

MarkTwain, From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, (1884)

Kate Chopin, "Désirèe's Baby" (1894)

William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" (1934)

William Faulkner reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Film: Barn Burning dir. by Peter Warner (1980) based on a story by William Faulkner

II. The South in the 20th Century.

The White Community Before the 1960s.

Eudora Welty, "Petrified Man" (1941)

The Black Community Before the 1960s

From Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

Langston Hughes, "I too" (1926) Hear Hughes read aloud his poem

The Civil Rights Movement

Eudora Welty: "Where is the Voice Coming From" (1963)

Film: Mississippi Burning dir. by Alan Parker 1988

Keeping Cold Cases Burning About reporter Jerry Mitchell who has been working for years on racial crimes in the South.

Alice Walker, "Elethia" (1971)

The New South

Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh" (1982)

James Lee Burke, "Jesus Out to Sea" (2007) See and hear James Lee Burke discuss his new book on YouTube Translation exercise: Fra slavepige til Præsidentfrue

Essay on "The Appropriation of Cultures" (1996) by Percival Everett

First Person Narratives of the American South 1860-1920

This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.
It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
An award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published during and after the Civil War.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1860.

Documenting the American South

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.
Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.