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This section contains a list of the texts read in this class. For a more detailed breakdown of which texts are read for which sessions, please consult the calendar in the syllabus.

Columbus, Christopher, and Bartolomé de las Casas. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493. Translated by O. C. Dunn and James E. Kelley. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989, pp. 57-113. ISBN: 9780806121017.

Kincaid, Jamaica. "In History." In My Garden (Book). New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, pp. 153-166. ISBN: 9780374527761.

———. A Small Place. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 [1988]. ISBN: 9780374527075.

Retamar, Roberto Fernández. "Caliban: Notes toward a discussion on culture in our America." In Caliban and Other Essays. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 3-45. ISBN: 9780816617432.

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, NY: Anchor books, 1994 [1959]. ISBN: 9780385474542.

Thiong'o, Ngugi wa. "The Language of African Literature." In Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1986, pp. 4-33. ISBN: 9780435080167.

Cliff, Michelle. Abeng. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780895941398.

Philip, Marlene NourbeSe. "Discourse on the Logic of Language," "Universal Grammar," "The Question of Language is the Answer to Power," "Testimony Stoops to Mother Tongue," and "She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks." In She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. London, UK: Women's Press, pp. 42-85. ISBN: 9780921556039.

Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. ISBN: 9780140131680.

Powell, Patricia. The Pagoda. New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1999 [1998]. ISBN: 9780156008297.

Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North. New York, NY: Penguin, 2003 [1966]. ISBN: 9780141187204.

el Sa'adawi, Nawal. Woman at Point Zero. London, UK: Zed Books, 1983 [1975]. ISBN: 9780862321109.

Dabydeen, David. Counting House. New York, NY: Peepal Tree Press Ltd., 2005 [1996]. ISBN: 9781845230159.

Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780819564528.

Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. London, UK: Secker and Warburg, 1999. ISBN: 9780436204890.

Gowariker, Ashutosh. Lagaan. India, 2001.