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Unit 7 - Postmodernism and Contemporary Writers II
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ENG 240: The American Short Story
Open Educational Resources for ENG 240
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Criticism: Literary, Historical, & Social
Journals
Module 1 - Legend of the American Short Story
Module 2 - American Romanticism
Module 3 - American Gothic Fiction
Module 4 - Realism and the Raw Shorts
Module 5 - The Era of Modernism
Module 6 - Postmodernism and Contemporary Writers
Unit 7 - Postmodernism and Contemporary Writers II
Literary Terminology
Readings
Required
Optional
"Children as Enemies" by Ha Jin
"Edison, New Jersey" by Junot Diaz
Diaz, J. (1996). Edison, New Jersey. In Drown (pp. 121–140). Riverhead Books.
"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Walker, A. (1997). Everday use. In H. L. Gates, Jr. & N. Y. McKay (Eds.), The Norton anthology of African American literature (pp. 2387–2394). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1973)
“The Richest babysitter in the World” by Curtis Sittenfeld
Published in the Atlantic, 2021
"Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian
Published in New Yorker, 2017
"Good People" by David Foster Wallace
"Drown" by Junot Diaz
Diaz, J. (1996). Drown. In Drown (pp. 91-107). Riverhead Books.
"Hell-Heaven" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri, J. (2008). Hell-heaven. In Unaccustomed earth (pp. 60–83). Alfred A. Knopf.
"The Reach" by Stephen King
Supplements
Audio
Literary Criticism
Levar Burton reads Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
Part 1 - Story begins at 8m44s
Levar Burton reads Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"
Part 2 - Story resumes at 3m29s
Maggie in Toni Morrison's "Récitatif: The Africanist Presence and Disability Studies
Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation
Toni Morrison and the burden of the passing narrative.
the lights are on, but no one lets us in: class and junot diaz’s “edison, new jersey”
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