Missouri Writers

This course studies the work of writers with some significant Missouri connection, from being born and raised here to having passed through for a few years. We will read their work as literary art and for what it can tell us about Missouri, particularly about the history of race and class in Missouri. Works will include William Wells Brown, Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter; Jack Conroy, The Disinherited; Ntozake Shange, Betsey Brown; Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson: And, Those Extraordinary Twins; John Williams, Stoner; Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone.

Coursework will include reading journals, a final paper, and for students in Honors, a recorded public lecture.