American Studies B1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN721
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Fairclough, Adam, Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000, New York, Viking, 2001
- Hacker, Andrew, Two nations: black and white, separate, hostile, unequal, New York, Scribner's, cop. 1992
- King, Martin Luther, Why we can't wait, New York, Penguin, 1964
Main group 2
- Greenstein, Fred I., The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Barack Obama, 3. ed., Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2009
- McKay, David; Houghton, David; Wroe, Andy, Controversies in American politics and society., Oxford, Blackwell, 2002
- Zakaria, Fareed, The Post-American World, New York, W. W. Norton, 2009
Main group 3
- Leavy, Patricia, Iconic Events: Media, Politics, and Power in Retelling History., Lexington Books, 2007
- Sturken, Marita, Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering, Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, cop. 1997
Main group 4
- Faulkner, William, As I lay dying., London, Vintage, 1996
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin, 1950, pr. 1966
- Howe, Susan, My Emily Dickinson
- Larsen, Nella, Passing, New York, Random House ; a London : b Kuperard, 2002
- Morrison, Toni, The bluest eye., London, Vintage, 1999
- O'Neill, Joseph, Netherland, 1st American ed., New York, Pantheon Books, c2008
- Olson, Charles, Call me Ishmael, New York, Grove, [1958]
- Parks, Suzan-Lori., Getting mother's body, London, Fourth Estate, 2003
- Stein, Gertrude, Three lives., London, Owen, 1970
- Ware, Chris, Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on earth, New York, Pantheon Books, 2000