Faculty Committee: Elliott Butler-Evans, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Candace Waid
Reading List
Selections marked with an asterisk (*)
are available from the Staff Graduate Adviser in a reader
that can be purchased or photocopied. A supplemental bibliography
of relevant theoretical and critical selections is also available
from the Staff Graduate Adviser. This supplemental bibliography
is recommended, not required reading.
- Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight
in Heaven or Indian Killer
- Gloria Anzaldúa, "To Live in the Borderlands Means You"*
- Jimmy Santiago Baca, "For A Chicano Brother Of Mine"*
- James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes
of a Native Son
- Amiri Baraka, poetry collected in Norton Anthology
of American Literature (3rd ed)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poetry collected in Norton Anthology
of American Literature (3rd ed)
- Ana Castillo
--"In My Country"*
--"Ixtacihuatl Died in Vain"*
--Mixquiahuala Letters or So Far From God
- Marilyn Chin, "We are Americans now, we live in the Tundra"*
- Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street and Woman
Hollering Creek
- Theresa Cha, Dictee
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, An African Slave
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine or Tracks
- Jessica Hagedorn, The Dogeaters
- Garrett Hongo, "Yellow Light"*
- Langston Hughes, poetry collected in Norton Anthology
of American Literature (3rd ed)
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Rodolofo Gonzales, Yo Soy Joaquín/I am Joaquín
- Philip Gotanda, Yankee Dawg You Die
- Joy Harjo, "I Give You Back,"* "The Woman Hanging From
the Thirteenth Floor Window," "Transformations,"* "Resurrection"
- David Hwang, M. Butterfly
- Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent), Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl
- Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of
a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Tripmaster Monkey
- Li Young Lee, "The Cleaving"*
- Adrian C. Louis, Wild Indians and Other Creatures
- Audre Lorde, poetry collected in Norton Anthology of
American Literature (3rd ed)
- D'Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded
- N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn and Way
to Rainy Mountain
- Alejandro Morales, The Brick People or Rag Doll
Plagues
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Milton Murayama, All I Asking for is My Body
- John Okada, No-No Boy
- Simon Ortiz, "A Story of How A Wall Stands"*
- Americo Paredes, George Washington Gómez
- Wang Ping, "No Sense of Direction"*
- John Rechy, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez
or Sexual Outlaw
- Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
- Tomas Rivera, Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And The
Earth Did Not Part
- Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered
Suicide When the Rainbow in Enuf or August Wilson, Piano
Lesson
- Leslie M. Silko, Ceremony or Storyteller
- Cathy Song, "The Youngest Daughter"*
- Toomer, Jean, Cane
- Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit, or Cherrie Moraga, Giving
Up The Ghost
- Helena Maria Viramontes, The Moths
- James Welch, "The Man From Washington,"* and Fools
Crow
- John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
- Ray Young Bear, Black Eagle Child
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