Required Texts and Materials
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Vintage, 1995.
ISBN: 0679732764
Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage Intl., 1991 (reissue).
ISBN: 0679732268
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper, 2000.
ISBN: 0060838671
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. New York, Penguin (reissue), 1994.
ISBN: 0140071083
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Signet, 1963 (reissue).
ISBN: 0451163966
Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
ISBN: 0452274664
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Plume, 2000.
ISBN: 0452282195
O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories. New York: Harvest, 1977.
ISBN: 0156364654
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York: Laurel, 1991.
ISBN: 0440180295
Supplementary materials provided by instructor:
Jackson, Shirley. "The Daemon Lover" in The Lottery and Other Stories. New York: Noonday Press, 1995.
SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
All assigned readings and papers are due on the date indicated. You should read the assigned chapters of the texts before the class, so that you can come with questions. You will not understand the lecture unless you have pre-read the assigned reading in the text, and every college course following this one will demand that you do so.
SCHEDULE
Week 1 - August 21st to 25th [1] Week 2 - August 28th to September 1st [2] Week 3 - September 4th to 8th [3] Week 4 - September 11th to 15th [4] Week 5 - September 18th to 22nd [5] Week 6 - September 25th to 29th [6] Week 7 - October 2nd to 6th [7] Week 8 - October 9th to 13th [8] Week 9 - October 16th to 20th [9] Week 10 - October 23rd to 27th [10] Week 11 - October 30th to November 3rd [11] Week 12 - November 6th to 10th [12] Week 13 - November 13th to 17th [13] Week 14 - November 20th to 24th [14] Week 15 - November 27th to December 1st [15] Week 16 - December 4th to 8th [16]