Coming Of Age In The South Spring 2016

In this entire course we have talked about elements of a southern literature. One of those main elements discussed was the grotesque and dar...

Throughout the novels we read this semester, there is a single common factor that is relevant in all each novel; aggressive masculinity. Wit...

Gaining agency is a key theme throughout both Bellocq's Ophelia  and Dreamboy.  In both stories that main characters cannot easily esca...

Both Salvage the Bones and Dream Boy display aspects of being a "southern gothic." Both novels contain instances of ghostly/ haunt...

At the start of Dream Boy Roy's character set off multiple red flags. Roy portrayed the classic role of over protected boyfriend, and bo...

i feel like this is how I feel as a young, black woman in Louisiana but less racism. To be Black in the South means having so much pride in ...

I would like to have a reaction to this story but I don't. It's not like the story wasn't not intriguing and captivating but ins...