Black Southern Gothic

Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

Black Southern Gothic is a podcast connected to a course at University of Iowa where we explore African American writing from the US South. These episodes will introduce you to readings from Zora Neale Hurston, Jesmyn Ward, Randall Kenan, Natasha Tretheway, Tayari Jones, and Attica Locke.

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Black Southern Gothic

Episodes (6)

Oct 5, 2020 On Randall Kenan: An Interview with Enrico Bruno
Sep 11, 2020 The Ghosts of Parchman Farm
Sep 4, 2020 What is Faulkner doing here?

Black Southern Gothic

Oct 5, 2020
31 minutes
29 MB

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 century African American fiction and how the legend of flight appears in Kenan's first novel, A Visitation of Spirits. We then turn to a discussion of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and ways in which Kenan uses the gothic trope to explore the intersections of race and sexuality in small-town South. We conclude with a bigger question of why the gothic is perhaps America's literary genre of choice and how it relates to...

Black Southern Gothic

On Randall Kenan: An Interview with Enrico Bruno

Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

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