Required Texts
Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. New York, NY: Penguin, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.
Díaz, Junot. Drown. New York, NY: Riverhead Trade, 1997. ISBN: 9781573226066.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780743487634.
Joyce, James. The Dubliners. New York, NY: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 9780141182452.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. ISBN: 9780374527358.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780395927205.
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York, NY: Knopf, 1992. ISBN: 9780679411673.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN: 9780486420493.
Readings by Session
SES # | ASSIGNED READINGS |
---|---|
1 | (no readings) |
2-3 | Wharton, The House of Mirth |
4-5 | Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies |
6-7 | Morrison, Jazz |
8 | Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 1-101 |
9 | Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 102-176 |
10 | Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 177-end |
11 | Joyce, The Dubliners: “The Sisters,” “Araby,” “Eveline” |
12 | The Dubliners: “Two Gallants,” “A Painful Case,” “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother” |
13 | The Dubliners: “The Dead” |
14-15 | Kincaid, Lucy |
16 | Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Part One |
17 | Crime and Punishment Part Two |
18 | Crime and Punishment Part Three |
19 | Crime and Punishment Part Four |
20 | Crime and Punishment Part Five |
21 | Crime and Punishment Part Six and Epilogue |
22 | Roy, The God of Small Things, pp. 3-147 |
23 | The God of Small Things, pp. 148-253 |
24 | The God of Small Things, pp. 254-end |
25 | Díaz. Drown: “Ysrael,” “Fiesta, 1980,” “Drown” |
26 |
Drown: “Boyfriend,” “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie,” “Negocios” Listen to Díaz read “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” in Act Two of Episode 94 of the radio show This American Life. |