Southern Novelists

Loading...

Del curso dictado por The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art

259 calificaciones

Explorar los videos relacionados

En Coursera, encontrarás las mejores conferencias del mundo. Aquí te mostramos algunas de nuestras recomendaciones personalizadas para ti

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art

259 calificaciones

From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.

De la lección

Southern Writers

Examining the lives and works of great Southern writers and looking at how specific stories, music, and art are referenced and provide structure for literary forms such as the novel and the short story.

Southern Letters2:53

The Short Story4:55

Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks: Literary Friends9:59

Southern Novelists3:52

Alice Walker: Regions of the Heart4:01

The Question of Black Humanity9:00

Conoce a los instructores

Dr. William Ferris
Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History; Senior Associate Director of CSAS; Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore
Department of History

[MUSIC]

Southern novelists are among the greatest novelists in history.

William Faulkner, Richard Wright, the list goes on.

And when we look at the novel, we see a long view,

a, voice that tells the story of the South.

And it is often a story as in the case of

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines.

Or Absalom, Absalom!,

by William Faulkner,

that spans a century from Civil War to Civil Rights.

And when we look at the novel,

we see within it the episodes of life, of generations.

And the stories of the South that linger in

the ear of a community and are translated and

transferred by the novelist onto the pages of fiction.

Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men," is a classic portrait

of southern politics and the legacy of Huey Long in Louisiana.

Mr. Warren grew up in the shadow of the Civil War.

Hearing the stories of his grandfather when he as a child visited him.

And those stories and many others live on through novelists like Robert Penn Warren,

Faulkner, Eudora Welter, and Richard Wright.

And Alex Haley talks about the power of the South

as a place of hands, touch, of deep feeling.

And that is the spirit that southern novelists capture in such powerful ways.

>> I'm influenced in whatever I say by the fact that I innately love the South.

I really truly think it's the best place in this country to live.

I like the people.

People are kinder.

More and we're certainly better raised than most of

the people I've met from other parts of the country.

We are, the things we

like we really go after and its not generally

mechanized to industrialize technological things.

Not so much as who is showing a picture that's more, and,

and, and I'm particularly moved by hands.

People's hands doing things.

Or if you look at the hands of old ladies they'll tell you

more about that lady's life than a little bit.

It's said that women's hands in particular show their.

Age and their, what their life has been like more than anything else about them.

And, I just feel the South is a, is a place of hands.

It's a place of touch, of caress, of, of less of slapping and

knocking people down this softer sweeter culture on the whole.

Explora nuestro catálogo

Inscríbete de manera gratuita y obtén recomendaciones personalizadas, actualizaciones y ofertas.

Coursera brinda acceso universal a la mejor educación del mundo, al asociarse con las mejores universidades y organizaciones, para ofrecer cursos en línea.

© 2019 Coursera Inc. Todos los derechos reservados.

Descargar en la App Store

Consíguelo en Google Play