This is no issue for two of my classes, which don't really have reading lists -- the Fiction Workshop and the Comp Class. In those classes, I rely on internet sources, mainly.
But this Fall I am also teaching Diverse Cultures: Working Class Lit, for the second time; and, for the first time, Popular Culture: Dystopian/Utopian Literature.
I'm using some of the same texts in Working Class Lit that I used the last time I taught, but I'm ditching the books that didn't work well and adding in new ones. Here's the reading list as I've got it so far:
American Working Class Literature
Oxford UP
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Anne Moody
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
Drown
Junot Diaz
For Utopian/ Dystopian Lit, I have this so far:
Utopia
Thomas More
The Just City
Jo Walton
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein
The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Comments or suggestions are appreciated!
1 comment:
Every time you post about the books/classes that you're teaching, I wish I has had a professor like you.
Given the choice between studying Shakespeare's Twelfth Night for the 13th time versus actually getting to discuss Joanna Russ or George Orwell, there's no contest.
Given the classes required to graduate all have titles like English Drama (nothing but Shakespeare), English Fiction (nothing but Shakespeare), Study of a Single Author (choice of Shakespeare or Desiderius Erasmus), ect, You seem to have so much freedom in the choice of what to teach and how to teach it.
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