Course Requirements

WEEKLY PREPARATION:

In preparation for weekly meetings, seminar participants should submit a one-paragraph, typed discussion question to my mail box by the specified deadline. Questions may broadly encompass the week’s subject matter, or focus closely on a passage of particular interest.

REQUIRED TEXTS

All required texts are available at Labyrinth books and are also on reserve at Butler library. The course reader may be purchased in the English Department office, and is also on reserve.

• James Baldwin, Another Country
• Russell Banks, Continental Drift
• Abraham Cahan, Yekel
• Pheng Cheah and Bruce Robbins, Cosmopolitics
• Martin Delaney, Blake, or the Huts of America
• Junot Diaz, Drown
• Henry James, Daisy Miller
• Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
• Claude McKay, Banjo
• Herman Melville, Beneto Cereno
• Toni Morrison, Tar Baby
• Bharati Mukherjee, The Holder of the World
• Michael Ondaatje, In the Lion’s Skin
• John Carlos Rowe, ed., Post-Nationalist American Studies