The course is an exploration of the historical, political as well as cultural developments in the post-Civil War South (1865–1915). Emphasis is on the contest for political but most of all cultural and discursive supremacy, in determining who rules and who defines the New South. We are going to look at political pamphlets, travel literature, fiction, journalism, war memoirs and speeches from Northerners, Southerners, white planter elite, former slaves, male and female, who engage in a war of words and images in creating a new Southern landscape, ideology, and identity.
Required Reading:
!!Course book: K. Stephen Prince. Stories of the South. Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865–1915. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
(There is a copy in the library and you can order a Kindle Version on amazon readable also on electronic devices without a Kindle!)
Number of primary texts published in seminar schedule (material available online or on Stud.IP)
Course Requirements:
A) Studienleistung: Referat mit Thesenpapier/Feedback, Lektürebericht (deadline 16.11.15)
B) Modulleistung: mündliche Prüfung
