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West by Southwest ~ 6 SessionsMontana, Oregon, Wyoming, New Mexico — landscapes and cultures that differ as much from the landscape and culture of New England as New York differs from Newport, Vermont. Or do they? What are the prevailing myths about the West? (Is the West a geographical entity, a cultural construct, a state of mind? Where is it, and when?) What effect has these myths had on those who travel there? Live there? Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Letters of a Woman Homesteader A. B. Guthrie, The Way West Willa Cather, The Professor’s House Ivan Doig, This House of Sky Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Women’s Literature: Dual Heritages ~ 4 Sessions Twenty-five years after the first Reading and Discussion program examined classics like My Antonia and The Female Eunuch in “Women in Literature,” this new series features contemporary, multicultural female voices. In novels and short stories, these foreign-born American writers celebrate the diversity of their dual heritages. Nora Keller, Comfort Woman (Korean-American) Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (Indian-American) Esmeralda Santiago, America’s Dream (Puerto Rican-American) Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (Haitian-American)
Yankees and Strangers: The New England Town ~ 4 SessionsThe traditional view of the New England town is pastoral, small-scale, and well-ordered. Its inhabitants, of Anglo-Saxon stock, are taciturn, frugal, and hardworking. But the reality is much more complicated. How and when did the popular image of the New England town develop? What role did immigration and urbanization play? Are traditional town virtues a reality today, or only a nostalgic image? Kenneth Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years Lucy Larcom, A New England Girlhood Harriet Wilson, Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North: Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There Deborah Rawson, Without a Farmhouse Near
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