AMERICAN LITERATUREREQUIRED TEXTSNative American Literature Zitkalaa
AMERICAN LITERATURE
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Native American Literature:
Zitkala-Ša: 'Why I am Pagan?'
Joe Harjo, poetry
Sherman Alexie: 'Class'
Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Puritans:
J. Smith, A Description of New England, A True Relation of... Virginia, handouts
W. Bradford: Of Plimouth Plantation, handouts
A. Bradstreet, poetry
Awakening:
J. Edwards 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God', 'Freedom of the Will', 'The Nature of True Virtue'
B. Franklin: The Autobiography, handouts
Revolution & Independence:
T. Jefferson, handouts
W Irving: 'Rip Van Winkle', 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
J.F. Cooper, handouts
American Naissance:
R.W. Emerson: Nature, handouts
E.A. Poe, 'The Purloined Letter' & poetry
N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
H.D. Thoreau, Journals, Walden, handouts
W. Whitman: 'Song of Myself'
E. Dickinson, poetry
1. NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
1. Zitkala Sa- Nika skripta
2. Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo's poems for their insights on and perceptions of alcoholism, colonialism, death and dying, family relationships, grief, loneliness, mourning, the Native-American experience, poverty, spirituality, trauma, war and medicine:
1. Eagle poem : nature, about freedom, the symbol of freedom with religious motives, circle of life…
“In beauty, beauty”
Beauty of life, prayers to the sky, nature is their God. All senses included
2. the contrast to the first poem, powerful words, troubles of her people, encountered with conquerors, Nature always finds its way if people are trying to destroy it
3. It is raining in Honolulu
Rain dance, as first song, nature the major motive, rain washes your sins away, the last two lines returns to blood(colonialism)
"The Dawn Appears with Butterflies," "Mourning Song," "Northern Lights," and "The
Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window"
3. Sherman Alexie – Class
American Indian author; wrote more than three hundred essays, reviews, poems, and stories.
Depicting the experience of contemporary American
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Native American Literature:
Zitkala-Ša: 'Why I am Pagan?'
Joe Harjo, poetry
Sherman Alexie: 'Class'
Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain
Puritans:
J. Smith, A Description of New England, A True Relation of... Virginia, handouts
W. Bradford: Of Plimouth Plantation, handouts
A. Bradstreet, poetry
Awakening:
J. Edwards 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God', 'Freedom of the Will', 'The Nature of True Virtue'
B. Franklin: The Autobiography, handouts
Revolution & Independence:
T. Jefferson, handouts
W Irving: 'Rip Van Winkle', 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
J.F. Cooper, handouts
American Naissance:
R.W. Emerson: Nature, handouts
E.A. Poe, 'The Purloined Letter' & poetry
N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
H.D. Thoreau, Journals, Walden, handouts
W. Whitman: 'Song of Myself'
E. Dickinson, poetry
1. NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
1. Zitkala Sa- Nika skripta
2. Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo's poems for their insights on and perceptions of alcoholism, colonialism, death and dying, family relationships, grief, loneliness, mourning, the Native-American experience, poverty, spirituality, trauma, war and medicine:
1. Eagle poem : nature, about freedom, the symbol of freedom with religious motives, circle of life…
“In beauty, beauty”
Beauty of life, prayers to the sky, nature is their God. All senses included
2. the contrast to the first poem, powerful words, troubles of her people, encountered with conquerors, Nature always finds its way if people are trying to destroy it
3. It is raining in Honolulu
Rain dance, as first song, nature the major motive, rain washes your sins away, the last two lines returns to blood(colonialism)
"The Dawn Appears with Butterflies," "Mourning Song," "Northern Lights," and "The
Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window"
3. Sherman Alexie – Class
American Indian author; wrote more than three hundred essays, reviews, poems, and stories.
Depicting the experience of contemporary American