American Studies B1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN721
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
American History
- Banner, Lois W., Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a radical for woman's rights, 4. pr., Boston, Little, Brown & comp., cop. 1980Compulsory
- Banner, Lois W., Women in modern America: a brief history, New York, Harcourt, cop. 1974Compulsory (Excerpts. Text provided by the teacher)
- Gender and American history since 1890, London, Routledge, 1993Compulsory
- Rosenberg, Carroll Smith, The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America, Part of: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, 1(1975):1, s. 1-29Compulsory (Available through J-STOR)
- Testi, Arnaldo, The gender of reform politics: Theodore Roosevelt and the culture of masculinity, Part of: The journal of American history., 81(1995):4, s. 1509-1533Compulsory (Available through J-STOR)
- Cuordileone, K. A., "Politics in an age of anxiety": Cold War political culture and the crisis in American masculinity, 1949-1960, Part of: The journal of American history., 87(2000):2, s. 515-545Compulsory (Available through J-STOR)
- Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986Compulsory
- Angelou, Maya., I know why the caged bird sings, New York, Random House, 2002Compulsory
- Miller, Arthur, Death of a salesmanCompulsory
An additional two short texts from J-STOR or photocopied material
American Politics
- Frey, William H., Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, Brookings Institution Press, 2014Compulsory
- Jones, Robert P., The end of White Christian America, First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., New York, Simon & Schuster, 2016Compulsory
- Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory
American Mass Media
The course reading is compiled in a compendium supplied by the department.
American 20th-Century Literature
- Williams, Tennessee; Browne, E. Martin, A streetcar named desire, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2009Compulsory
- Lee, Harper, To kill a mockingbird, London, Vintage, 2004Compulsory
- Morrison, Toni, Beloved, London, Vintage Books, 2005Compulsory
- Villanueva, Tino, Scene from the movie Giant, 1. ed., Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press, 1993Compulsory
- Foer, Jonathan Safran, Everything is illuminated, Penguin Books Ltd., 2003Compulsory
- Hamid, Mohsin, The reluctant fundamentalist, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2008Compulsory
Ginsburg, Allen. "Howl", "A Supermarket in California", "America" (handout)
Cisneros, Sandra. "Never Marry a Mexican" (handout)
* Compulsory