Náplň kurzu (a zároveň okruhy ke zkoušce): 2025/26 1. Cultural Pluralism and Multiculturalism Reading: "The Right to Be Different" (Kallen summary) Josef Jařab, "Fusion or Fragmentation" Further reading: Horace M. Kallen, "Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality" Context: Sara Song, "Multiculturalism," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiculturalism/ 2. Asian American Literature Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee Reading: Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Interpreter of Maladies", in The Interpreter of Maladies Further Reading: Bharati Mukherjee, "The Management of Grief" (in The Middleman and Other Stories), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine 3. African American Literature Today - Female Writers Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Dori Sanders Reading: Alice Walker, "Cuddling" Further Reading: Alice Walker, "Orelia and John" (both stories from The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart) Recommended: Dori Sanders, Clover 4. Contemporary Jewish American Literature Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Nathan Englander, Art Spiegelman Reading: Nathan Englander, "How We Avenged the Blums" Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl" Further reading: Art Spiegelman, Maus 1 5. African American Literature Today - Male Writers James Alan McPherson, Ernest Gaines, Percival Everett, Randall Kenan, Edward P. Jones, Nathan Harris Reading: Percival Everett, "Appropriation of Cultures" Further Reading: Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water James A. McPherson, "A Loaf of Bread" Recommended: Ernest Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men 6. Native American Writers James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie Reading: Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" Further Reading: Sherman Alexie, "The Search Engine" Recommended: Louise Erdrich, Tracks 7. Ending Postmodernism and After Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Reading: Dave Eggers, The Circle Further reading: Paul Auster, "City of Glass", in The New York Trilogy Don De Lillo: White Noise 8. American Short Story: Recent Developments Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Bobby Ann Mason, Ron Rash Reading: Raymond Carver, "Cathedral," in Cathedral. Tobias Wolff, "The Bible" Further reading: Ron Rash, "Cherokee" Jařab, Josef. "Americká povídka posledního desetiletí", Světová literatura 34, no. 1 (1989): 2-8. 9. Literature of The New Lost Generation David Leavitt, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz Reading: David Leavitt, "The New Lost Generation", Further Reading: David Leavitt, "Family Dancing" Recommended: Bret Easton Ellis, The American Psycho Tama Janowitz, The Slaves of New York (short stories) Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City Literary context: Jařab, Josef, "The Stories of the New Lost Generation" (see Moodle AML4) 10. Contemporary American Drama Edward Albee, Beth Henley, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Tony Kushner Reading: Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Recommended: Sam Shepard, Buried Child 11. Literature of the US South and Southwest Cormac McCarthy, Ron Rash, Robert Morgan, Liza Alther, Larry Brown Reading: Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men Further Reading: Larry Brown, "Boy and Dog" 12. Poetry in Present-day America Post-beat poets, C. K. Williams, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Fred Chappell, Natasha Trethewey Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa, selection of poems from Neon Vernacular Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard Ke každé otázce u zkoušky nebo u státnic je třeba přečíst alespoň 1 román nebo 1 drama, nebo 2 povídky/eseje, v případě otázky z poezie alespoň 10 básní. You should be able to: categorize the writers, relate them to region and period decade, identify influences, know their masterpieces (at least two) and the main literary prizes and awards they received. https://lithub.com/american-women-masters-of-the-short-story/
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