Further Module Information
Seminar Programme
Week 1
Workshop: Theorizing the American Southwest
Week 2
Mary Austin.The Land of Little Rain. 1903. New York: Dover, 1996.
Keith Basso. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Further Reading
Clifford Geertz. “Afterword.” Feld & Basso eds. Senses of Place. 259-262.
Week 3
George Herriman. Krazy and Ignatz: The Komplete Kat Komics 1925 and 1926. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2002.
Further Reading
Eric Gary Anderson. American Indian Literature and the Southwest. Austin: Texas University Press, 1999. Chapters 9 & 10.
Week 4
Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. 1927. London: Virago, 1997.
Further Reading
Deborah Lindsay Williams. "Losing Nothing, Comprehending Everything: Learning to Read both the Old World and the New in Death Comes for the Archbishop. 80-96.
Charles W. Mignon. "Cather's Copy of Death Comes for the Archbishop." 172-186.
Week 5
Leslie Marmon Silko. Ceremony. London: Penguin, 1977.
Further Reading
Catherine Rainwater in Chavkin ed. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.
Zamir Shamoon in Krupat. A. Ed. New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism.
Arnold Krupat. The Turn to the Native. 30-55.
Week 6
Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West. New York: Knopf, 1985.
Further Reading
Tba.
Week 7
Leslie Silko. Almanac of the Dead. London: Penguin, 1991.
Further Reading
Tba.
Week 8
Sandra Cisneros. Woman Hollering Creek (1991). London: Bloomsbury, 2004.
Ana Castillo. So Far From God. New York: Norton, 1993.
Further Reading
C. Hepworth. "Chicano/a Fiction", Helena Grice et. al. Eds. Beginning Ethnic American Literatures. 189-243.
Ana Castillo. Massacre of the Dreamers (1995)
Week 9
Juan Felipe Herrera. Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Gloria Anzaldúa. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. aunt lute, 1987.
Further Reading
Y. Yarbro-Bejarano. “Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: Cultural Studies, 'Difference', and the Non-Unitary Subject.” Zamora, L. P. ed. Contemporary American Women Writers. 11-31.
Week 10
Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men. New York: Knopf, 2005.