English 116 American Literature Honors Seminar
Fall 1997

Southern American Literature




Seminar description, list of students, and weekly syllabus
Seminar Bibliography


Material on individual authors
and Southern culture
on the World Wide Web

 

For general sites on Southern culture below, click here

A general list of reference resources in McCabe on Southern American prose


Individual Authors on the Syllabus

 

Eudora Welty


Eudora Welty web listings are currently being constructed but none were available as of Sept. 1st. 1997.

In the meantime, here's a story for you:

"On the occasion of a Ladies Auxilliary luncheon in Eudora Welty's home town of Jackson, Mississippi, she was invited to read one of her stories. But between the lunch itself, the minutes of the last luncheon, and whatever else, they were running short on time. So the woman presiding turned to the author and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Eudora. We aren't going to have time for you to read your story. Why don't you just tell it to us in your own words?"



Walker Percy

The Walker Percy Project, courtesy of the University of North Carolina. Lots of good stuff, including an archive of past discussions of the novels. For students and general readers as well as for scholars.



Frederick Douglass


Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845): Electronic Text version (searchable)


The Frederick Douglass Papers--includes a brief biography of Douglass




Harriet Jacobs


I'm still hunting for Jacobs materials on the Net.
All I can find so far are references to her in course syllabi, book lists, etc.


E.D.E.N. Southworth

Ditto--just references in course syllabi and bookseller's lists . . . so far.


Margaret Mitchell Home Page

includes info on the novel, life, her house, etc.

Gone With the Wind: the movie




Faulkner resources on the Net (lots)


Dorothy Allison

an interview with Allison by Lily Ng

Amazon.com talks to Dorothy Allison

an interview by "Barbarism" with Allison in 1995, entitled "Difficult Seductress"

 


Albert Murray

a discussion of Murray's Omni-Americans and Blue Devils of Nada (both essay collections), including his interpretation of the importance of the blues for understanding American culture

 


Gloria Naylor

some links relevant for Mama Day, including a discussion of "conjure" in the novel

a brief history of the Sea Islands and Gullah culture

 


Charles Johnson, Oxherding Tale resources
Professor Johnson is clearly Net-savvy.



Ten Oxherding Pictures

(Zen Buddhist pictures and text that was a central influence on Johnson and his fictional hero)


info from the Seattle Times on Charles Johnson and his new book project, a work on Martin Luther King, Jr.



E-mail Charles Johnson



 

Miscellaneous Sites on Southern Culture & History

from the sublime to the moonpie....

 

The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi

Site listings, publications, archives and media listings, events, conferences....

 

Documenting the American South;

or, The Southern Experience in Nineteenth-Century America

This database is maintained by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It presents primary sources documenting the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. (Much current published information about the 19th-century South comes from Northerners.) The database offers diaries, autobiographies, travel acconts, titles on slavery, etc.---primarily from the nineteenth century. It is an ongoing project.

 


Y'all --- is it the best Southern page?

 

Southern Books On-Line - An online book retailer selling books on the Southern United States
culture, foods, leisure, travel, sports, entertainment and other interesting topics about the South.

The American South Home Page

The Amazing Story of Kudzu

Shrine to Southern Culture [an infamous site....]

The Official Moon Pie Homepage

Please send me addresses for other good pages that you find.