Approaches to Select Texts in World Literature

READINGS
Epic traditions
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Odyssey, Book V
The Odyssey Books I-XIV
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

THE DRAMATIC TRADITIONS
The Tragedies of Aeschylus
Kalidasa's Shakuntala
The Father, Strindberg

PROSE
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Heptameron, de Navarre
The Answer, Sor Juana
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, Cugoano
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
I Write What I Like, Biko

FICTION
The Tale of Genji, Murasaki
I Saw the Sky Catch Fire, Echewa
Cracking India, Sidhwa
Distant View of a Minaret, Rifaat
Faceless, Darko
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Alvarez
House Made of Dawn, Momaday
The Inheritance, Khalifeh
The Woman Warrior, Kingston

SELECTIONS FROM AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY

APPROACHES
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Ramanathan
Homer, Odyssey, K. Myrsiades
Homer, Odyssey, Ramanathan
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, Awuyah
Kalidasa's Shakuntala, Gangopadhyay
Strindberg, The Father, Ramanathan
Sun Tzu, The Art of War, L. Myrsiades
de Navarre, Heptameron, Ward
Sor Juana, The Answer, Jeffrey
Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, Awuyah
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, C. James Trotman
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Awuyah
Murasaki, The Tale of Genji, Ramanathan
Echewa, I Saw the Sky Catch Fire, Ramanathan
Sidhwa, Cracking India, Ramanathan
Rifaat, Distant View of a Minaret, Geetha Ramanathan
Amma Darko, Faceless, Chris Kwame Awuyah
Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Geetha Ramanathan
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn, Chris Kwame Awuyah
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Geetha Ramanathan
Selections from African American Poetry, Jennifer Henton, Hofstra University
Visual Texts: Using Cartoons on Abortion, Linda Myrsiades, West Chester University

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