English 118 - "Modern American Authors"
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Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia February 1991
@Gordon Ball (from Doubletake, Issue 6)
Jan. 15 - Introduction Jan. 17, 19, 22
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
(Sally Adair Rigsbee, "The Feminine in Winesburg, Ohio"
and David Stouck, "Anderson's Expressionist Art")
Jan.
24, 26, 29 (Student-Led Session), 31
Robert Frost,Collected
Poems
Click here for list of
readings.
Feb. 2
John Jay Chapman, "Coatesville"
Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
Richard Wright, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow"
Feb.
5, 7, 9 12
(Student-Led
Session),
14 [Journals Due],
16
William Faulkner, Light in August
(André Bleikasten, "The Closed Society and Its
Subjects,"
Judith Wittenberg, "The Women in Light in August," and excerpts
from other critical essays)
Feb. 19(Student-Led Session)
Flannery O'Connor, "The Displaced Person"
(+ Rachel Carroll, "Foreign Bodies:
History and Trauma in O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person'")
Feb. 21, 23(Student-Led Session)
Langston Hughes, "Bop"
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl," "America," "Mugging"
(+ Marjorie Perloff, Excerpts on "Howl" and "Mugging")
Feb.
26, 28, March 2 [Research
Proposals Due]
Malcolm
X (and Alex Haley),
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
[Spring
Break - 5:30 p.m. , March 2 - 11]
March 12 (Student-Led Session) [Journals Due]
Malcolm
X (and Alex Haley),
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
March
14
The Autobiography
of Malcolm X : Epilogue
+ poems by Robert Hayden ("El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz")
and Welton Smith ("Malcolm") [xerox]
Contemporary
Autobiography in the U.S.
(Malcolm X pages) (4/9 - Site is at least temporarily inaccessible.)
Autobiography
of Malcolm X
(Marcel Schilling's site)
March
16
Malcolm X, "Message to the Grass Roots"
Norman
Podhoretz, "My Negro Problem–and Ours"
Gerald Early, "Their Malcolm, My Problem"
bell hooks, "Malcolm X: The Longed-for Feminist Manhood"
March
19, 21(Student-Led Session), 23, 26
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
+"Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants";
Wong Sam and Assistants, "English -Chinese Phrase Book" (1875);
Yuan Yuan, "The Semiotics of China Narratives in the Con/Texts
of Kingston and Tan" (excerpts)
Asian/Pacific American West Site
Asian Ancestors PBS Programs & Resources
March
28, 30 (Student-Led Session)
April 2 (Research Outline and "Works Cited"
due)
April
4, 6, 9
Don DeLillo, Libra
(+ Allison Gross, "On Don DeLillo's Libra")
Lee Harvey Oswald research page
The
Kennedy Assassination (McAdams site)
April
11 (Wed.)
Robert
Pinsky, "Shirt"
Gerald Stern, "Soap"
Caroyn Kizer, "Twelve O'Clock"
[Reading
Day: April 13]
April 16 (Mon.)
[Research
Papers Due]
Ai,
"The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
[J.
Robert Oppenheimer site]
April
18(Wed.)
(Student-Led
Session)
Denise Duhamel, "Yes," "Art"
Adrienne
Rich, "To the Days"
Li-Young
Lee, "Persimmons"
April
20 (Fri.)
Yusef
Komunyakaa, "Facing It"
Yusef
Komunyakaa - Cover Page
[Komunyakaa
Reading at SBC: 4/26]
Toi
Derricotte, "Notes on My Son's Face," "Blackbottom"
Cathy
Song, "Heaven"
23
(Mon.)[Journals
Due], 25(Wed.)
Jhumpha Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies
Classes End - Thursday, April 26
Reading Day - April 27
Exams: April 28 - May 3
Commencement - May 4
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