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“Tell about the South,” demands Shreve McCannon in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Was the “Old South” a region stuck in time, anti-modern, anti-North and anti-black” or was it, as historians have recently suggested, “an active participant in, and even a promoter of, change, progress, political liberalism, and global tourism?” This course will examine the powerful cultural and political influence of the American South on the nation and internationally. |