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.

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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’ve 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

Week 2 - August 28th to September 1st

Week 3 - September 4th to 8th

Week 4 - September 11th to 15th

Week 5 - September 18th to 22nd

Week 6 - September 25th to 29th

Week 7 - October 2nd to 6th

Week 8 - October 9th to 13th

Week 9 - October 16th to 20th

Week 10 - October 23rd to 27th

Week 11 - October 30th to November 3rd

Week 12 - November 6th to 10th

Week 13 - November 13th to 17th

Week 14 - November 20th to 24th

Week 15 - November 27th to December 1st

Week 16 - December 4th to 8th