Crossing Cultures and Borders: New Voices in American Literature
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN485
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
The teacher makes a selection from the following list.
- Abu-Jaber, Diana, Arabian jazz, 1. ed., New York, Harcourt Brace, 1994
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta., The revolt of the cockroach people, 1st Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1989
- Alameddine, Rabih, Koolaids: the art of war, 1. ed., New York, Picador USA, 1998
- Alexie, Sherman, Reservation blues, 1st Warner Books ed., New York, Warner Books, 1996
- Anaya, Rudolfo A., Bless me, Ultima, Warner Books ed., New York, Warner Books, 1999
- Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Dictée, Berkeley, Third Woman Press, 1995
- Choi, Susan, A person of interest: a novel, New York, Penguin Books, 2009
- Cisneros, Sandra., Caramelo or Puro cuento: a novel, 1st ed., New York, Knopf, c2002
- Danticat, Edwidge, Brother, I'm dying, 1st Vantage books ed., New York, Vantage Books, 2008
- Díaz, Junot, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao: [a novel], New York, Riverhead Books, 2007
- Erdrich, Louise, The round house: [a novel], 1. ed., New York, NY, Harper, 2012
- Garcia, Cristina, Dreaming in Cuban: a novel, New York, Ballantine Books, 1993
- Goldman, Francisco., The ordinary seaman, 1st ed., New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, c1997
- Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, Dogeaters: a play about the Philippines, 1st ed., New York, Theatre Communications Group, 2003
- Halaby, Laila., Once in a promised land: a novel, Boston, Beacon Press, c2007
- Hijuelos, Oscar, The Mambo Kings play songs of love, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1994
- Hirahara, Naomi, Summer of the big bachi, New York, Dell Book, 2008
- Jin, Ha, War trash, London, Penguin Books, 2006
- Kincaid, Jamaica, The autobiography of my mother, London, Vintage, 1996
- Kingston, Maxine Hong, Tripmaster monkey: his fake book, New York, Vintage, 1990
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Interpreter of maladies: stories, [New ed.], London, Flamingo, 2000
- Lee, Chang-rae, Native speaker, London, Granta, 1998, c1995
- Min, Anchee, Becoming Madame Mao, London, Allison & Busby, 2000
- Momaday, N. Scott, House made of dawn, New York, Perennial Classics, 1999
- Mukherjee, Bharati, Jasmine, Markham, Penguin Books, 1990
- Okada, John, No-no boy, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1981, c1976
- Otsuka, Julie, The Buddha in the Attic, London, Penguin Books, 2013
- Paredes, Américo, George Washington Gómez: a Mexicotexan novel, Houston, Tex., Arte Publico Press, c1990
- Revoyr, Nina, The age of dreaming, New York, Akashic Books, c2008
- Rodriguez, Richard, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
- Sáenz, Benjamin Alire., Everything begins & ends at the Kentucky Club, El Paso, Cinco Puntos Press, 2012
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986
- Straight, Susan., Between heaven and here, San Francisco, McSweeney's Books, c2012
- Treuer, David., The translation of Dr. Apelles: a love story, Saint Paul, Minn., Graywolf Press, c2006
- Welch, James, Winter in the blood, New York, Penguin Books, 1986