American Literature II PCM Reading List Associate Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal Late Nineteenth Century | Turn of the Century | Early Modern Period | The Lost Generation The Harlem Renaissance | The Fifties and Sixties | Present Day from the Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed. (Vols. C, D, E) Click here for Table of Contents for Volume C; Volume D; Volume E In order to better understand the works, check out the literary databases, especially Bloom's and MagillonLiterature. To access online literary databases, go to the ACC Library. Next, click "Articles and Research" then go to Articles and More. Finally, click Literature and Literary Criticism to find literary biographies and analyses, as well as scholarly articles and synopses of the works. At some point, you will be prompted to type in your ACCeID and password. If you need help, Ask a Librarian. Late 19th Century: (1865-1910) Literary Writing and Terms Introduction to the Late 19th Century African American Folktales Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) : "My Contraband" or "The Brothers" Mark Twain (1835-1910) :"Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog" Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) from Uncle Remus (chapters 2 and 4)-- click here for audio: from Free Joe ("Free Joe and the Rest of the World") Corridos Turn of the Century Literary Writing and Terms Kate Chopin (1851-1904) : The Awakening Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) : "A White Heron" O. Henry (1862-1910): "Gift of the Magi" Gertrude Bonnin (1876-1938) : from School Days; "Why I am Pagan" Modern Period (1910-1945) Introduction to the Modern Period Literary Writing and Terms Early Modern Period Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) : Up from Slavery; Click for video lecture Robert Frost (1874-1963) : "Mending Wall" (YouTube); "Out, Out"; "The Ax-Helve"; "Stopping by Woods"; "Design"; "Provide, Provide"; "Directive"; "Road Not Taken" Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) : "The Spring and the Fall"; "Love is not all" (YouTube); Sonnets xli and xcv; "Justice Denied in Massachusetts"; "Recuerdo" (YouTube) Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) : "Flowering Judas" Marianne Moore (1887-1972): "The Pangolin"; "Poetry" (YouTube); "What Are Years?" Thomas Whitecloud (1914-1972) :"Blue Winds Dancing" The Lost Generation William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) : "The Young Housewife" (YouTube); "Portrait of a Lady"; "Spring and All" (YouTube); "The Poor"; "The Descent"; "The Pink Locust"; "The Great Figure" T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (YouTube); "The Waste Land" Ernest Hemingway (1899-1932) : "Hills Like White Elephants" ; (Click Here for Film Adaptation) The Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes (1902-1967): "The Weary Blues"; "Drum"; "The Same"; "Negro"; "I, Too" (audio); "Harlem"; "Freedom Train" ; "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (audio) Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) "Sweat" (audio);"The Gilded Six-Bits" Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) : "The Mother"; "A Bronzeville Mother";"Lovers of the Poor"; "We Real Cool" (audio) James Baldwin (1924-1987) "Sonny's Blues" Contemporary: 1945-Present Introduction to the Contemporary Period Literary Writing and Terms The Fifties and Sixties Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) : "The Fish"; "The Man Moth"; "In the Waiting Room"; "One Art" (YouTube) Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): "Daddy" (YouTube); "Lady Lazarus" (Interview and Reading); "Fever 103" (You Tube) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : "Howl"; "Supermarket" (YouTube) Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) :"I Have a Dream" (YouTube) Saul Bellow (b. 1915) "Looking for Mr. Green" Contemporary American Authors Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) : "Living in Sin" ;(Click Here for YouTube); "Diving into the Wreck"; (Click here for YouTube); "From a Survivor"; "Power"; "not Somewhere Else"; "Coast to Coast"; "Frame" Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) "Eleven"; "Old Maids" and "Las Girlfriends" Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954) "Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway"; "Poem for the Young White Man" Cathy Song (b. 1955) : "Girl Powdering Her Neck" ; "Lost Sister"; (Click here for reading)   Louisa May Alcott   Kate Chopin      Gertrude Bonnin Robert Frost Marianne Moore Booker T. Washington F. Scott Fitzgerald    Ernest Hemingway Zora Neale Hurston   James Baldwin Gwendolyn Brooks      Sylvia Plath     Sandra Cisneros   Alice Walker Note: All readings are required and will be covered in the quizzes, daily assignments, and Midterm Exam. Created by Becky Villarreal, Austin Community College 2002