Huvudgrupp 1

Primärtexter

• Melville, Herman; McCall, Dan, Melville's short novels [Texte imprimé]: authoritative texts, contexts, criticism, New York, W.W. Norton, 2002Obligatorisk* (Benito Cereno)
• Douglass, Frederick m.fl., The heroic slave: a cultural and critical edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, [2015]Obligatorisk*
• Delany, Martin R., Blake, or, The huts of America: a novel, Boston, Beacon press, 1970Obligatorisk*
• Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the life of a slave girl: contexts, criticism, 1. ed., New York, W.W. Norton, c2001Obligatorisk*
• Chesnutt, Charles W.; Sollors, Werner., The marrow of tradition: authoritative text, contexts, criticism, 1st ed., New York, W. W. Norton & Co., c2012Obligatorisk*
• Twain, Mark; Berger, Sidney E., Pudd'nhead Wilson: and, Those extraordinary twins: authoritative texts, textual introduction, tables of variants, criticism, 2nd ed., New York, N.Y., W.W. Norton, c2005Obligatorisk*
• Hurston, Zora Neale; Washington, Mary Helen; Gates, Henry Louis, Their eyes were watching God: a novel, 1. Perennial Classics ed., New York, Perennial Classics, 1998Obligatorisk*

Examinationstexter

• Butler, Octavia E, Kindred, Boston, Beacon Press, c2003
• Wright, Richard, Native son, 1. Perennial Classics ed., New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
• Wideman, John Edgar, Philadelphia fire, London, Picador, 1995

Kritiskt material

Utdrag ur följande texter:

• Baker, Houston A., Modernism and the Harlem renaissance, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987
• Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American voices, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994
• Gates, Henry Louis, The signifying monkey: a theory of Afro-American literary criticism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988
• Morrison, Toni, Playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, 1992
• Nelson, Dana D., The word in black and white: reading "race" in American literature 1638-1867, New ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 1994
• Sollors, Werner, Beyond ethnicity: consent and descent in American culture, New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1986
• Sundquist, Eric J., To wake the Nations: race in the making of American literature, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap P., 1993
• Warren, Kenneth W., What was African American literature?, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2011

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