LITR 4332 American Minority Literature 2008 Syllabus

List of Required Primary Texts

Dominant / Immigrant Culture & “The American Dream”

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

selections from Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

African American Identity—“The Dream”

Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” (1963)

Selections from The Classic Slave Narratives (1987, Penguin / Mentor)

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1971; Bantam)

Native American Identity—“Loss and Survival”

American Indian Origin Stories (handout)

Zitkala-Sa, American Indian Stories (1900-02, 1921)

Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine (1993 [expanded edition])

Mexican-American Identity—“The Ambivalent Minority”

“The Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe” (handout)

Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (1973; Warner)

+ Poems either as photocopy handouts or links

Jupiter Hammon, "An Evening Thought . . . "