For Tuesday, April 24

A. Work in Review

I'd like to spend half the class (about) having you report informally about what you're doing project-wise, and how the work is going. I'll probably just do this by going around the room (which direction will be by flip of a coin or something) and asking you for word or two. Any of you who are working in teams may want to get together and appoint someone to speak for the rest of you. (When you do, identify the team members as part of your informal report).

Review, in The American South, a History,

The sections on the Southern Literary Renaissance and Southern Regionalism pp. 626-633.

Read, in Growing Up in the South

Children of Strikers, by Fred Chappell pp. 66-69
Fast Love, by Michael Malone pp. 79-89
Ellen Gilchrist, The President of the Louisiana Live Oak Society pp. 130-145

Read, in Major Problems,

Chapter 10, In Search of the Modern South
1. John Crow Ransom Takes a Stand for the Agrarian Way of Life (1930) pp. 288-291
"Explaining the Southern Renaissance," by Richard H. King pp. 297-300

If the South couldn't be what it had been, how could it be something, new, authentic, faithful to its heritage, and yet reconciled to national ideals? The essays and stories address this issue directly or indirectly.

Read: in Major Problems,

Chapter 11, Turning points?
All Documents pp. 317-331

...in The American South,

Chapter 25, the section on the Depression through the section on Southern Agriculture pp. 639-654