Writing American Selves: Fictional and Non-Fictional Self-Portraiture

Main group 1

• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself: authoritative text contexts criticism, Second edition., New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017Compulsory*
• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass and other writings: authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism, New York, Norton, 2001Compulsory*
• Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990Compulsory*
• Wright, Richard 1908-1960, Black boy (American hunger): a record of childhood and youth, 1st HarperPerennial ed., HarperPerennialCompulsory*
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, Vintage international ed., New York, Vintage international, 1989Compulsory*
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, Between the world and me, Melbourne, Victoria, Text Publishing Company, 2015Compulsory*

In addition, a selection of texts online, in Studium and photocopied material.

* Compulsory