Reading the Contemporary: Post-45 American Literature and Culture
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN523
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.
- Acosta, Oscar Zeta., The revolt of the cockroach people, 1st Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1989Compulsory
- Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango Street, New York, Vintage Contemporaries, 2009Compulsory
- DeLillo, Don., White noise, New York, NY, Viking, 1985Compulsory
- Egan, Jennifer., A visit from the Goon Squad, 1. Anchor Books ed., New York, Anchor Books, 2011Compulsory
- Ellison, Ralph, Invisible man, [New ed.], New York, Vintage international, 1995Compulsory
- Mailer, Norman, An American dream, London, Flamingo, 1994Compulsory
- Morrison, Toni, Beloved: a novel, 1. Vintage International ed., New York, Vintage International, cop. 2004Compulsory
- Pynchon, Thomas, The crying of lot 49, 1st Harper Perennial modern classics ed., New York, Harper Perennial, 2006, c1966Compulsory
- Yamashita, Karen Tei, Tropic of orange, Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 2017Compulsory
* Compulsory