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Litteratur

Arthur Miller: The Crucible,

Joseph Heller: Catch-22,

Jack Kerouac: On the Road,

John Updike: Rabbit, Run,

Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun,

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar,

The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Fifth Edition Shorter),

Utvalg:

  • Allen Ginsberg. "Howl", Part I
  • Bernard Malamud. "The Magic Barrel"
  • Gwendolyn Brooks "To the Diaspora"
  • Sylvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus"

Kompendium (UniPub):,

  • Gwendolyn Brooks. "The Lovers of the Poor"
  • James Baldwin. "Sonny's Blues"
  • Grace Paley, "The Loudest Voice"
  • Bob Dylan. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , "With God on Our Side"

Kulturkunnskap

Paul S. Boyer: Promises to Keep: The United States since World War II, 2nd ed., 1999. Chapters 3-11.

William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds.: A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. 5th ed. , 1999.

Utvalg:

Part 1. The Cold War Abroad and At Home

  • Introduction
  • The Need to Contain Soviet Expansion - George F. Kennan
  • The Truman Doctrine - Harry S. Truman
  • NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council
  • HUAC Investigates Hollywood
  • The Internal Communist Menace - Joseph R. McCarthy

Part 2. The Politics of the Affluent Society

  • Introduction
  • A Revisionist View of the Ike Age - Stephen Ambrose
  • Reevaluating JFK's Presidency - Lance Morrow

Part 3. Civil Rights

  • Introduction
  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Message to the Grass Roots - Malcome X

Part 4. Feminism

  • Introduction
  • Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement - Sara Evans
  • Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory - bell hooks

Part 5. Vietnam and the Years of Polarization

  • Introduction
  • Causes of the War - Leslie Gelb
  • The Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society
  • Rise and Fall of a Counterculture - Allen J. Matusow
  • The Forgotten American - Peter Schrag
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Publisert 6. mars 2005 11:49