1W. W. Hölbling DIPlL.-DISS.

SEMINAR: SS 2006
Mainstreams and Ethnicities

B I B LI O G RAPHY

I. TEXTS

HAAL = Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd edition.

African American:
Toni Morrison from Sula (HAAL II, 3230-3235): “!922".
Gloria Naylor. Mama Day
Audre Lorde “Power”, “Walking Our Boundaries”, “Never Take Fire from a Woman”,
“The Art of Response,” “Stations” (HAAL II, 2939-2944)

Asian American:
Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior : “White Tigers!” (HAAL II, 2945-2965)
Amy Tan from The Joy Luck Club : “The Red Candle” (HAAL II, 2966-2977)
Garret Hongo “Yellow Light,” “Off from Swing Shift”, “Who Among You Knows the
Essence of Garlic?,” “And Your Soul Shall Dance,” “Something Whispered in the
Shakuhachi,” “The Unreal Dwelling: My Years in Volcano” (HAAL II, 2800-2820)
Bharati Mukherjee “A Wife’s Story” (HAAL II, 3191-3200)
Gish Jen “In the American Society” (HAAL II, 2979-2989)

Spanish American
Lorna Dee Cervantes “Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway,” “Poem for the Young White Man....”,
“Macho” (HAAL II, 3176-3180)
Tato Laviera “frío,” “AmeRícan,” “Latero Story” (HAAL II, 3077-3081)
Nicholasa Mohr from Rituals of Survival: (HAAL II, 2782-2789)
“A Thanksgiving Celebration (Amy)”
‘Mainstream’:
John Barth “Lost in the Funhouse” (HAAL II, 2875-2892)
Michael Herr from Dispatches: “I” (HAAL II, 3025-3032)
Marge Piercy “The woman in the ordinary”, “unlearning to not speak”, “to be of use”, “the
perpetual migration,” “putting the good things away” (HAAL II, 2743-2748)
Norman Mailer from Armies of the Night (HAAL II, 3015-3024))
Grace Paley “The Expensive Moment” (HAAL II, 2574-2582)

Native American:
Beth Brant "Swimming Upstream"
Thomas King "A Seat in the Garden"
N. Scott Momaday House Made of Dawn
Leslie Marmon Silko “Lullaby” (HAAL II,3202-3208)
Selected Native-American poetry (xeroxes)
"Talk Concerning the First Beginning" (Zuni) (HAAL)
"Changing Woman and the Hero Twins" (HAAL)

Critical Texts:
Federman, Raymond
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Arnold Krupat
N. Scott Momaday
„Surfiction - Four Propositions in Form of an Introduction“
Loose Canons (excerpts)
"’Literary ‘Criticism / Native American “Literature”
"The Morality of Indian Hating"
 II. SELECTED CRITICAL READING

Addell, Sandra. Double Consciousness/Double Bind. Theoretical Issues in Twentieth Century Black
Literature. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1994.
Black Elk Speaks. Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, as told through John. G. Nei -
hart (Flaming Rainbow). Lincoln and London: Univ. of Nebraska Pr., 1979.
Braxton, Joanne and Andrée Nicola McLaughlin, eds. Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afro-American
Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance. New Jersey: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990.
Brotherston, Gordon. Book of the Fourth World. Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature.
New York: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt,
1970; Owl Book, 1991.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-America Woman Novelist.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987.
Coffer, William E. Spirits of the Sacred Mountains. Creation Stories of the American Indian. New York:
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978.
Deloria, Vine Jr. Custer Died For Your Sins. An Indian manifesto. New York, 1969; Norman: Univ. of
Oklahoma Pr., 1988.
Diedrich, Maria/Carl Pedersen/Justine Tally. Mapping African America. History, Narrative Formation, and
the Production of Knowledge. Hamburg: LitVerlag, 1999. (FORECAAST, vol. 1)
Ducille, Ann. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
Fabre, Geneviève and Rober O'Meally, eds. History and Memory in African-American Culture. New
York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
Fiske, John. Media Matters: Race & Gender in United States Politics. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota
Press, 1996.
Frantz, Klaus. Die Indianerreservationen in den USA. Aspekte der territorialen Entwicklung und des
sozio-ökonomischen Wandels. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Loose Canons. Notes on the Culture Wars. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1993.
Gosset, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.
Highwater, Jamake. The Primal Mind. Vision and Reality in Indian America. New York: New American
Library, 1981.
Holloway, Karla F.C. Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's
Literature. New Jersey: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1992.
Howard, Helene Addison. American indian Poetry. Boston: Twayne, 1979.
Jacobson, Angeline. Contemporary Native American Literature. A selected and partly annot.
bibliography. Metuchen: Scarecrow Pr., 1977.
Karrer, Wolfgang, and Hartmut Lutz, eds. Minority Literature in North America. Contemporary Perspec-
tives. Frankfurt/M: Lang, 1990.
Krupat, Arnold. Ethnocriticism. Ethnography, History, Literature. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Pr., 1992.
Lauter, Paul. Canons and Contexts. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991.
Manninger, Karin. "Problems of Assimilation and Identity in Contemporary Novels by Black and Indian
American Feminist Writers." Graz: Dipl. Arb., Inst. f. Amerik., 1990.
McNickle, D'Arcy. They Came Here First. The Epic of the American Indian. New York: Octagon, 1975.
Native American Tribalism. Indian Survivals and Renewals. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.
Murray, David.
Forked Tongues. Speech, Writing and Representations in North American indian Texts. Bloomington:
Indiana Univ. Pr., 1991.
Nelson, Robert M. Place and Vision. The Function of Landscape in Native American Fiction.
Frankfurt/M: Lang, 1993.
Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 1991.
Owens, Louis. Other Destinies. Understanding the American Indian Novel. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma
Pr., 1994.
Radin, Paul. The Trickster. A Study in Indian Mythology. New York: Schocken Books, 1978.
Singh, Amritjit, ed. Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literatures.
Northeastern Univ. Press, 1995.
Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity. Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford Univ.
Press.
Sollors, Werner, ed. The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and
Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1994.
Spillers, Hortense J., ed. Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex and Nationality in the Modern
Text. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Springer, Waltraud. "Native Images: Indianisches Schreiben und Identitätsfindung. Ein Beitrag zur
interkulturellen Kommunikation." Graz: Dipl. Arb., Inst. f. Amerik., 1995.
Tally, Justine. Paradise Reconsidered: Toni Morrison’s (Hi)stories and Truths. Hamburg: LitVerlag, 1999.
Forum to European Contributions in African American Studies, 3.
Vizenor, Gerald, ed. Narrative Chance. Postmodern Discourse on Native American Literatures.
Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Pr.,1989.
Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Indian in America. New York: Harper Torch Books, 1975.
Wexlman, Joe, and Houston A. Baker Jr., eds. Studies in Black American Literature Vol. III. Black Femi-
nist Criticism and Critical Theory. Greenwood, Florida: Penkeville, 1988.
Wiget, Andrew. Native American Literature. Boston: Twayne, 1985.

III. SELECTIVE WEBLIOGRAPHY

African American Studies Resources: http://www.uky.edu/Subject/africanam.html

American Studies Crossroads Project: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/index.html
American Studies Web: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/
American Literature Association: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/
Chicano Studies Research Center: http://vos.ucsb.edu/, http://www.ctheory.net/
National Museum of the American Indian Website: http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Netnoir/Black Web: http://www.netnoir.com
Society for Cinema Studies Website: www.cmstudies.org
The English Server (Humanities Texts Online): http://eserver.org
Critical Theory Websites: http://vos.ucsb.edu/, http://www.ctheory.net/

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