a) Novels:
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
b) Short Stories:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ?The Yellow Wallpaper?
Mary Wilkins Freeman, ?Louisa?
Kate Chopin, ?A Pair of Silk Stockings?, ?Desire?s Baby?, ?La Bella Zoraida?
Sarah Barnwell Elliott, ?A Long Dream?
Willa Cather, ?Paul?s Case?
Dorothy Canfield, ?La Pharmacienne?
Katherine Ann Porter, ?Pale Horse, Pale Rider?
Edith Wharton, ?The Eyes?
Gertrude Stein, ?Melanctha?
Cinthia Oznick, ?The Shawl?
Tillie Olsen, ?As I Stand Here Ironing?
Bharati Mukherjee, ?A Father?
Leslie Marmon Silko, ?Yellow Woman?
Sandra Cisneros, ?Little Miracles, Kept Promises?
Flannery O?Connor, ?A Good Man is Hard to Find?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nina Baym, Conflicting Stories. American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Hazel V. Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood. The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Oxford UP, 1987)
Emory Elliot (Ed.) Selected chapters from Columbia Literary History of the United States (translated into Spanish as Historia de la Literatura Norteamericana, Cátedra, 1991): Recommended chapters: ?La aparición de la mujer escritora? (pp. 289-3-4), ?Mujeres escritoras y la nueva mujer?(pp. 549-564), ?Escritoras de entreguerras? (pp. 746-762).
Sandra Gilber and Susan Gubar, eds. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. The Tradition in English (W.W. Norton &
company, 1985)
Carolyn Heilbrun, Hamlet?s Mother and other Women (Powell Book, 1979).
Karen Kilput, ed. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. An Anthology (Blackwell, 1997)
Elaine Showalter, Sister?s Choice. Tradition and Change in American Women?s Writing (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991).
Elaine Showalter, Scribbling Women: American Women?s Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century (J.M. Dent and Sons, 1998)
? More specific bibliography on set works once the course has started
c) Plays:
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raising in the Sun
Short stories and non-fiction writing will be provided in photocopies and will be left in the photocopy room by the start of the course.
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