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Introductions; organization of groups.
Introductions to southern women's writing
Text: Preview Weaks and Perry, The Antebellum South" (pp. 2-13).
Questions
Week One
Comment due: Tuesday, January 21.
Week
2 SATURDAY January 25
Texts:
Weaks and Perry, "The Antebellum South" (2-13)
Eliza Pinckney, from "The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762"
(14)
Fanny Kemble, from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
in 1838-1839 (48)
Susan Bowen, "A Marriage of Persuasion" (55)
Sarah Grimke,' from "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition
of Woman" (62)
Frances E. W. Harper, poems (70-73)
Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (76)
Questions
Week Two
Comment due Saturday, January 25; responses to group due Tuesday,
January 28.
Week
3 SATURDAY February 1
Texts:
Weeks & Perry, "The Civil War South" (92-97)
Mary Boykin Chesnut, "Nation in the Making" (98).
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, from Macaria (116-124)
Elizabeth Keckley, from Behind the Scenes (132).
Questions
Week Three
Comment due Saturday, February 1; responses due Tuesday, February
4.
Southern Women Writers Project (#1):Writer's Choice (Monday, 02/03)
Week
4 SATURDAY February 8
Texts:
Weeks & Perry: "The Post-Bellum South" (139-145)
Sherwood Bonner, "Gran'mammy" & "Why Gran'mammy Didn't Like Pound-Cake"
(146)
Mary N. Murphree, "The Dancin' Party at Harrison Cove" (153)
Grace King, "The Little Convent Girl" (169)
Stuart, "A Christmas Gift" or "Queen oí Sheba" (online)
Questions
Week Four
Comment due Saturday, February 8; responses due Tuesday, February
11.
Week
5 SATURDAY February 15
Texts:
Kate Chopin, "A Respectable Woman" (177)
Kate Chopin, in The Awakening and Selected Stories
"At the 'Cadian Ball," "Desiree's Baby," "La Belle Zoraide," "Athenaise,
"A Pair of Silk Stockings," "Neg Creol," "The Storm"
Questions
Week Five
Comment due Saturday, February 15; responses due Tuesday, February
18.
Southern Women Writers Project (#2):Biographical Sketch (Mon. 02/19)
Week
6 SATURDAY February 22
Texts:
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Violets, "Violets," "The Woman,"
and "At Eventide." And from The Goodness of St. Rocque, "The
Goodness of St. Rocque," "Tony's Wife," "Mr. Baptiste," "A Carnival Jangle,"
"Little Miss Sophie,""Sister Josepha," "The Praline Woman," and "Odalie."
Available online at the Schomberg
Digital Library <http://149.123.1.8/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html>
From Weaks and Perry, "Sonnet" "April Is on the Way". "The Proletariat
Speaks"(194)
Questions
Week Six
Comment due Saturday, February 22; responses due Tuesday, February
25.
Week
7 SATURDAY March 1 (Mardi Gras Holiday)
Week
8 SATURDAY March 8
Texts:
.Weeks & Perry, "The Modern South" (202-207)
Julia Peterkin, "Over the River"
Katherine Anne Porter, "The Journey" (215)
Caroline Gordon, "The Petrified Woman" (229)
Carson McCullers, "The Haunted Boy" (254)
Zora NealeHurston, "The Eatonville Anthology" (242)
Questions
Week Eight
Comment due Saturday, March 8; responses due Tuesday, March 11.
Southern Women Writers Project (#3):Bibliography (Monday, 03/10)
Week
9 SATURDAY March 15
Texts:
O'Connor, Flannery. from A Good Man Is Hard to Find.and Other Stories.
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "The River," "The Life You Save May Be
Your Own," "A Stroke of Good Fortune," "A Temple of the Holy Ghost," "The
Artificial Nigger," "A Circle in the Fire," "A Late Encounter with the
Enemy," "Good Country People," "The Displaced Person."
Questions
Week Nine
Comment due Saturday, March 15 responses due Tuesday, March 18.
Southern Women WritersProject (#4):Annotations (Monday, 03/17)
Week
10 SATURDAY, March 22
Texts:
Eudora Welty, "Livvie" (279)
One Writer's Beginnings
Questions
Week Ten
Comment due Saturday, March 22; responses due Tuesday, March
25.
Week
11 SATURDAY, March 29
Texts:
Weeks & Perry, "The Contemporary South" [pp.293-299]
Margaret Walker, poems (300)
Doris Betts, "The Beasts of the Southern Wild" (304)
Sonia Sanchez, poems (318)
Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh" (332)
Ellen Gilchrist, "The Expansion of the Universe" (365)
Leigh Allison Wilson, "South of the Border" (381)
Mab Segrest,"Southern Women Writing" (346)
Questions
Week Eleven
Comment due Saturday, March 29; responses due Tuesday, March
31.
Week
12 SATURDAY, April 5
Texts:
Walker, Alice. Meridian. New York: Pocket Books,1986.
Alice Walker, "The Black Writer and the Southern Experience" (326)
Questions
Week Twelve
Comment due Saturday, April 5; responses due Tuesday, April 8.
Southern WomenWriters Project (#5): Context Report(Monday, 04/07)
Week
13 SATURDAY, April 12
Texts:
Tademy, Lalita. Cane River Warner Books, 2002.
Questions
Week Thirteen
Comment due Saturday, April 12; responses due Tuesday, April 15.
EASTER HOLIDAY
Week
15 SATURDAY April 26
Texts:
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Questions
Week Fifteen
Comment due Saturday, April 26; responses due Tuesday, April 29.
Week
15 SATURDAY May 3
Texts: tba
Questions
Week Sixteen
Comment due Saturday, May 3; responses due Tuesday, May 6.
FRIDAY, MAY 9
Final Examination Due
Southern WomenWriters Project (#6): Webpage
Presentations
WAC Lab, Bobet 100, 6:00-9:00 p.m.