Modernism and Modernity in America
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN521
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
Primary texts
Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.
- Attaway, William., Blood on the forge, New York, New York Review Books, 2005Compulsory
- Bontemps, Arna, Black thunder: Gabriel's revolt: Virginia: 1800, Boston, 1970Compulsory
- Dos Passos, John, 1919: Vol. 2 of the U. S. A. trilogy, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2000Compulsory
- Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!: the corrected text, Vintage international ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990Compulsory
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Yellow wall-paper, herland, and selected writings, Penguin Classics, 2009Compulsory
- Doolittle, Hilda, Asphodel, Duke University Press, 1992Compulsory
- Hurston, Zora Neale; Danticat, Danticat; Gates, Henry Louis Jr, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ny uppl., New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006Compulsory
- Larsen, Nella, Passing, PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, 2003Compulsory
- Smedley, Agnes, Daughter of earth, [New ed.], New York, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, cop. 1987Compulsory
- Toomer, Jean, Cane, Ww Norton & Co, 2011Compulsory
Handouts
Selected texts by Paul Laurence Dunbar, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Alain Locke, and Sui Sin Far.
* Compulsory