Module Identifier | ENM3020 | ||
Module Title | MODERN AMERICAN NOVELS AND DRAMA - AN INTRODUCTION | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | To Be Arranged | ||
Semester | Available semesters 1 and 2 | ||
Course delivery | Seminar | 2 hours per week | |
Assessment | Essay | 1 x 5,000 word essay |
1. Post-War American Drama 1
Tennessee Williams, "The Glass Menagerie" (1945)
Arthur Miller, "Death of a Salesman" (1949)
Further Reading: Arthur Miller, "All My Sons" (1947)
2. Post-War American Drama 2
Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947)
Edward Albee, "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" (1962)
3. Growing up in America
J D Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951)
Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar" (1963)
James Baldwin, "Go Tell It On The Mountain" (1953)
4. Black Fiction and Political Strategies
Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man" (1952)
James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time" (1963)
"Eyes On The Prize", selected episodes TV Documentary
See Also: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (1965)
5. Black Drama
LeRoi Jones, "Dutchman" (1964)
August Wilson, "Fences" (1986)