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Native American Literature ~ 4 SessionsThese titles include fiction, myth, poetry, and personal narrative – and represent some of the finest work by Native writers since the renaissance of American Indian writing in the 1970s. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain Leslie Marmon Silko, CeremonyJoy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: Poems Smoke Signals (Film directed by Chris Eyre, based on short stories by Sherman Alexie)
Old Traditions, New Voices: Italian-American Experience ~ 4 Sessions This series focuses on the ethos of immigration and the Italian tradition in America. Camille Cusumano, The Last Cannoli Ken Ciongoli and Jay Parini, Passage to Liberty Tina De Rosa, Paper Fish Bill Tonelli, The Italian American Reader
Scandinavian Film and Literature ~ 4 SessionsThe Nobel Prize for Literature originated in the European North. In fiction and film, take this tour through Lapland, Sweden, Greenland, and Finland and see for yourself why Scandinavian stories delight the imagination and bring the history of Northern Europe to life. Pathfinder (film) Selma Lagerlöf, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Heart of Light (film) Väinö Linna, Here Under the North Star
Southern Writers ~ 5 SessionsThis series includes a sampling of some of the finest writers of the American South. It raises questions important to any discussion of regional writing: How is the region defined? What makes a writer or a work southern? Whose South is being portrayed? Which themes are unique to southern writers and which are universal? Eudora Welty, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine: A Novel Walker Percy, The Second Coming Lee Smith, Oral History Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Cultural and Regional Exploration, continued . . . Cultural and Regional Exploration, back . . .
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