Black Southern Gothic
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
On Randall Kenan: An Interview with Enrico Bruno
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I interview University of Iowa PhD candidate Enrico Bruno about his work on Randall Kenan. We discuss the role of mythology in 20th c...
The Ghosts of Parchman Farm
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In preparation for reading Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, we explore the history and musical legacy of one of the most notorious prisons in the...
What is Faulkner doing here?
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” and William Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun” and “Pantaloon in Black” and looking a...
Hurston's Haunted South
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we discuss the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston, with a focus on her as an anthropologist of black culture in the US South. I...
What Is the Black Southern Gothic?
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode, I explain what I mean by the terms Black, Southern, and Gothic and ask the main questions of the course. I place this course in...
Welcome to Black Southern Gothic
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas