Broad overview of the themes and writers studied in ENG 276

1. Identity of a Culture: Rooted in Place An Introduction to Southern Literature

6. Hollywood’s version of the Old South (movie poster, 1939)

10. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) (photo from the Library of Congress) “ There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes . . . I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood.” from “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

11. William Faulkner (1897 – 1962) (photo from Southern Literary Trail ) “ The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” from Requiem for a Nun

13. Tennessee Williams (1911 – 1983) (photo by Orland Fernandez) “ When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt . . . And wasn’t we happy together? Wasn’t it all okay? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describing me as an ape.” Stanley from A Streetcar Named Desire (Andrews, 676)

15. Alice Walker b. 1944 (photo by Noah Berger) “ You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.” from The Color Purple

17. Works Cited Andre, Vaschelle. “Alice Walker with her Power Plant, Collard Greens.” 2009. Alice Walker’s Garden . 2009. 15 July 2009 <http://www.alicewalkersgarden.com/>. Andrews, William L., ed. The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology . New York: Norton & Company, 1998. Berger, Noah. “Alice Walker.” 2008. Alice Walker’s Garden . 2009. 15 July 2009 <http://www.alicewalkersgarden.com/>. Faulkner, William. Absalom! Absalom! 1936 . New York: Vintage International, 1990. ---. Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random, 1950. Fernandez, Orland. “Tennessee Williams.” 1965. Library of Congress. Wikimedia Commons. 2009. 15 July 2009 <http://commons.wilimedia.org/wiki/File:Tennessee_Williams_NYWTS.jpg>. Ferris, William. R. “Eudora Welty” Early Photo. Southern Folklife Digital Archive. Hosted by Ibiblio: the Public’s Library and Digital Archive. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. last revised May 14, 2008. 15 July 2009 <http://www.ibiblio.org/ferris/people/welty/>. “ Flannery O’Connor.” NNDB: Tracking the World. 2009 Soylent Communications. 15 July 2009 <http://www.nndb.com/people/414/000044282/>.

18. Works Cited continued Gone With the Wind . Dir. Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures., 1939. “ Gone With the Wind (trailer).” Editing Exercise by Beatrice Corti. YouTube. 2009. 15 July 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc>. “ Gone With the Wind.” Movie Poster. 1939. The Films. 1997 – 2009. 16 July 2009 <http://tf.org/filmcard/1014>. Kemble, E.W. “Br’er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby” Drawing from The Tar-Baby by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904. Wikimedia Commons. 2009. 16 July 2009 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Br%27er_Rabbit_and_Tar-Baby.jpg>. O’Connor, Flannery. Quotes. Good Reads . 2009 16 July 2009 <http://www.goodreads.com/>. Osgood, Samuel. “Mary Boykin Chestnut.” Portrait. 1850s. On loan to National Portrait Gallery by Serena VanRensselaer. Sweet Briar College. 15 July 2009 <http://www2.sbc.edu/president/mbc.html?books>. Walker, Alice. The Color Purple . Orlando: Harcourt, 1982. Welty, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings . 1983. MA, Harvard Press, 2000. “ William Faulkner.” Photo. Southern Literary Trail . 2009. 15 July 2009 <http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/oxford.html>. “ Zora Neale Hurston.” Photo. Library of Congress. The American Novel. 2007. Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 15 July 2009 <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hurston.html>.