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Required Texts

Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. New York, NY: Penguin, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.

Díaz, Junot. Drown. New York, NY: Riverhead Trade, 1997. ISBN: 9781573226066.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York, NY: Pocket Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780743487634.

Joyce, James. The Dubliners. New York, NY: Penguin, 2000. ISBN: 9780141182452.

Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. ISBN: 9780374527358.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780395927205.

Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York, NY: Knopf, 1992. ISBN: 9780679411673.

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN: 9780486420493.

Course readings.
SES #	ASSIGNED READINGS
1	(no readings)
2-3	Wharton, The House of Mirth
4-5	Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
6-7	Morrison, Jazz
8	Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 1-101
9	Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 102-176
10	Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 177-end
11	Joyce, The Dubliners: "The Sisters," "Araby," "Eveline"
12	The Dubliners: "Two Gallants," "A Painful Case," "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother"
13	The Dubliners: "The Dead"
14-15	Kincaid, Lucy
16	Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Part One
17	Crime and Punishment Part Two
18	Crime and Punishment Part Three
19	Crime and Punishment Part Four
20	Crime and Punishment Part Five
21	Crime and Punishment Part Six and Epilogue
22	Roy, The God of Small Things, pp. 3-147
23	The God of Small Things, pp. 148-253
24	The God of Small Things, pp. 254-end
25	Díaz. Drown: "Ysrael," "Fiesta, 1980," "Drown"
26	Drown: "Boyfriend," "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie," "Negocios" Listen to Díaz read "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" in Act Two of Episode 94 of the radio show This American Life.