Lecturer in charge: To be announced

This course looks critically at the terms "American" and "Modern" by using writers from different ethnic/cultural backgrounds: Native-American, Euro-American, African-American, Caribbean-American, and Asian-American. Five texts will be studied in detail, in relation to their particular sources.

Prerequisite: LITS 1002 (E10B)

Instruction: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: Coursework (2 written assignments) 40%
Final 2-hour examination 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (Vintage pb)
Hong-Kingston, Maxine. The Woman Warrior (Vintage pb)
Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones (Feminist Press pb)
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony (Penguin pb)
Wright, Richard. Native Son (Harper Perennial pb)