I’m pulling a panel together for Rural History 2017 (Leuven, Belgium, 11-14 September) on the following topic:

American literature with rural or agricultural content taught in European schools.

If you studied an American novel in school in Europe (grades before university) please post the author, title and brief summary of how the literature was included in lessons (English language instruction, American Studies, literature). For example, during the 1990s, 7^th graders in Denmark read Richard Wright’s Black Boy as they learned the English language and studied race and racism. Panelists will put the rural and agricultural history in selected novels into historic context. It became evident during conversations with conference attendees during Rural History 2015 that a session on historic literature would appeal to conference registrants, and it sounds like fun!