Huvudgrupp 1

Primärtexter

Ett urval av följande texter görs av läraren:

• Adams, Henry, The education of Henry Adams, Boston, Mass., 1973
• Baldwin, James, Another country, London, Michael Joseph, 1963
• Bellow, Saul, The adventures of Augie March, [New ed.], New York, Penguin, 2006
• Brown, Charles Brockden; Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen, Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker ; with related texts, Indianapolis, Hackett Pub. Co., c2006
• Cooper, James Fenimore, The last of the Mohicans, New York, Signet, 2014
• Cotton, John, Gods promise to his plantation: as it was delivered in a sermon, London, Printed by William Iones, 1620
• Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, Letters from an American farmer., New York, Dutton, [197-?] (utdrag)
• Danforth, Samuel, A brief recognition of New-Englands errand into the wilderness: made in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusetts Colony at Boston in N.E. on the 11th of the third moneth, 1670, being the day of election there, Cambridge [Mass.], Printed by S.G. and M.J., 1671
• DeLillo, Don, Libra, London, Penguin, 1989, c1988
• Doctorow, E. L., Ragtime: [a novel], London, Macmillan, 1976, cop. 1975
• Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, The souls of Black folk, Boulder, Paradigm Publishers, 2004 (Utdrag)
• Eggers, Dave, Zeitoun, San Francisco, McSweeney's Books, c2009
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998
• Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography., London, 1964
• Frank, Waldo, Our America, New York, AMS press, 1972 (Utdrag)
• Ginsberg, Allen, Howl and other poems, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1962
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The scarlet letter., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1994
• Hinojosa, Rolando., The valley: a re-creation in narrative prose of a portfolio of etchings, engravings, sketches, and silhouettes by various artists in various styles, plus a set of photographs from a family album, Ypsilanti, Mich., Bilingual Press, c1983
• Jen, Gish, Mona in the promised land, London, Granta Books, 1998
• Jin, Ha, A free life: [a novel], 1. ed., New York, Pantheon Books, 2007
• King, Martin Luther, I have a dream, New York, Scholastic, 1997
• King, Martin Luther, Letter from a Birmingham jail, Ingår i: Approaches to peace: a reader in peace studies, 2. ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 2010
• Lee, Chang-rae, Native speaker, London, Granta, 1998, c1995
• Lincoln, Abraham, "House divided" speech, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Lincoln, Abraham, The Gettysburg address, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Mailer, Norman, The armies of the night, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, 1968, pr. 1971
• McCarthy, Cormac, Blood meridian, [New ed.], London, Picador, 2010
• Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick: an authoritative text, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, criticism, 2. ed., New York, Norton, 2002
• O'Neill, Joseph, Netherland, 1st American ed., New York, Pantheon Books, c2008
• Paine, Thomas, Common sense, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976
• Parks, Suzan-Lori., The America play, and other works, 1st ed., New York, Theatre Communications Group, 1995
• Rodriguez, Richard, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
• Roth, Philip., The plot against America: [a novel], Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004
• Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts, New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986
• Leeman, Richard W.; Duffy, Bernard K., The will of a people: a critical anthology of great African American speeches, Carbondale, [Ill.], Southern Illinois University Press, c2012 (Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the fourth of july")
• Turner, Frederick Jackson, The significance of the frontier in American history, New York, 1963 (utdrag)
• Updike, John., Couples, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970
• Vizenor, Gerald, The heirs of Columbus, Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, cop. 1991
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Jailbird: a novel, London, Cape, 1979
• Waldman, Amy, The Submission, Random House UK, 2012
• Whitman, Walt; Bloom, Harold, Leaves of grass: the first (1855) edition, 150th anniversary ed., New York, Penguin Books, c2005
• Williams, William Carlos, In the American grain, New York, New Directions, 1956 (utdrag)
• Williams, William Carlos, Spring and all, New York, New Directions Pub., 2011
• Wong, Shawn, Homebase: a novel, 1st University of Washington Press ed., Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2008

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Selected Essays.

Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems.

O'Sullivan, John. "Annexation." PDF: http://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/anglo/OSullivanAnnexation.pdf

Kritiskt material

Utdrag ur följande texter:

• Anderson, Benedict, Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Rev. and extended ed., London, Verso, 1991
• Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands: the new mestiza = La frontera, 2. ed., San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books, cop. 1999
• Arac, Jonathan, The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860, 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2005
• Calhoun, Craig J., Nations matter: culture, history, and the cosmopolitan dream, London, Routledge, 2007
• Jehlen, Myra, American incarnation: the individual, the nation, and the continent, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1986
• Lee, A. Robert, Multicultural American literature: comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2003
• Looby, Christopher, Voicing America: language, literary form, and the origins of the United States, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996
• Michaels, Walter Benn, Our America: nativism, modernism, and pluralism, Durham, Duke Univ. Press, 1995
• Nadel, Alan, Containment culture: American narratives, postmodernism, and the atomic age, Durham, N.C., Duke Univ. Press, cop. 1995
• Saldívar, José David, Trans-Americanity: subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico, Durham, Duke University Press, 2012
• Warner, Michael, The letters of the republic: publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1990
• Douglas, Christopher, Reciting America: culture and cliché in contemporary U.S. fiction, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c2001

Web-based material http:

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