Week 1 (Friday, Jan. 7): Background in southern literature, LGBT history in the American South
- "Out of Silence" (1998) by Jim Grimsley
- "The Contemporary Southern Writer and the Tradition," from The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World, by Fred Hobson, Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures No. 33 (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991).
- "Queering the South: Constructions of Southern/Queer Identity," by Donna Jo Smith, from Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South, ed. by John Howard (New York and London: New York University Press, 1997).
- Stuck Rubber Baby (1995) by Howard Cruse
Week 2 (Tues., Jan 11 and Thurs., Jan. 13): Texts from the Southern Literary Renascence
- "The Ballad of the Sad Café" (1938) by Carson McCullers
- Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) by Truman Capote
- Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) by Rita Mae Brown
Week 3(Tues., Jan. 18 and Thurs., Jan 20): Women's texts
- Cavedweller (1998) by Dorothy Allison
- The Revolution of Little Girls (1991) by Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Memoir of a Race Traitor (1994) by Mab Segrest
Week 4 (Tues., Jan. 25 and Thurs., Jan. 27): Men's texts
- White People (1990) by Alan Gurganis
- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992) by Randall Kenan
- Dream Boy (1995) by Jim Grimsley
[Week 5: Discuss final reflections?]
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