21L.512 | Spring 2003 | Undergraduate

American Authors: American Women Authors

Readings

Required Texts

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills. Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed, Cecelia Tichi. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998.

Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall and Other Writings. Ed. Joyce W. Warren. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited with Introduction by Jean F. Yellin, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, ed. Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Keller, Nora Okja. Comfort Woman. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York : Modern Library, 2000.

Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York : Plume Putnam Inc., 1999.

Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Minister’s Wooing. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. 1905. Ed. Shari Benstock. Boston. Bedford / St. Martin,1994.

Sources on Comfort Women

Japan’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation (Toshiyuki Tanaka); call number- D810.C698.T36 2002 (Humanities library)

Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II; call number- D810.C698.L44 2001 (Humanities library)

Comfort Women Speak: testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese Military; call number- D810.C698.C66 2000 (Humanities library)

Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II; D810.C698.Y6713 2000 (Humanities library)

The Comfort Women: Japan’s brutal regime of enforced prostitution in the Second World War (George L. Hicks); D810.C698.H53 1995 (Humanities library, women’s studies reading room)

True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women; D810.C698.T78 1995 (Humanities library, women’s studies reading room)

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