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Primary texts

Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.

• Faulkner, William, Light in August, London, Vintage, 2000Compulsory*
• Doolittle, Hilda, Asphodel, Duke University Press, 1992Compulsory*
• Hammett, Dashiell, Red harvest, 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed, New York, Vintage Books, 1992Compulsory*
• Hurston, Zora Neale; Danticat, Danticat; Gates, Henry Louis Jr, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ny uppl., New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006Compulsory*
• Larsen, Nella, QuicksandCompulsory*
• The Iron Heel, Penguin Classics, 2006Compulsory*
• Loos, Anita; Barton, Ralph, Gentlemen prefer blondes: the illuminating diary of a professional lady, New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2014Compulsory*
• Tsiang, H. T.; Cheung, Floyd; Hsu, Hua, The hanging on Union Square: an American epic, [New York, New York], Penguin Books, 2019Compulsory*
• West, Nathanael, Miss Lonelyhearts: &, The day of the locust, New York, New Directions, 2009Compulsory*
• Wharton, Edith, Summer, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015Compulsory*

Handouts and Films

Birth of a Nation, directed by DW Griffith, (excerpt)

The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland.

Crane, Hart. Extracts from The Bridge ("Cutty Sark," "Cape Hatteras")

Lovecraft, HP. "The Shadow over Innsmouth"

Porter, Katherine Anne. "Old Mortality"

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle (extract, chapter 9)

Stein, Gertrude. "Melanctha"

Toomer, Jean. Selected short stories and poems from "Cane"

Wright, Richard. "The Man who Lived Underground"

* Compulsory