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* {{cite book |last=Tiptree |first=James |date=1996 |orig-year=1976 |title=Houston, Houston, Do You Read? |url=https://amzn.to/2HfXq8x |location=New York |publisher=Doubleday Book |author-link=w:James Tiptree Jr. |ref=harv }} (Will be available as a PDF.)
* {{cite book |last=Tiptree |first=James |date=1996 |orig-year=1976 |title=Houston, Houston, Do You Read? |url=https://amzn.to/2HfXq8x |location=New York |publisher=Doubleday Book |author-link=w:James Tiptree Jr. |ref=harv }} (Will be available as a PDF.)
* {{cite book |last=Vonnegut |first=Kurt |date=1999 |orig-year=1969 |title=Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel |url=https://amzn.to/3kaNbRt |location=New York |publisher=Dial Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link=w:Kurt Vonnegut |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Vonnegut |first=Kurt |date=1999 |orig-year=1969 |title=Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel |url=https://amzn.to/3kaNbRt |location=New York |publisher=Dial Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link=w:Kurt Vonnegut |ref=harv }}
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Welcome to ENGL 3700, Studies in the Contemporary Novel

This section will consider what I’m calling “The New American Mythology” in American novels after World War II. Subjects will include the narratives that make up “America” for better or worse, like race, religion, identity, gender, reproduction, beauty, war, and technoculture.

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Required Texts

  • Atwood, Margaret (2014) [1985]. The Handmaid’s Tale. New York: Library Edition.
  • Baldwin, James (2013) [1953]. Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York: Vintage.
  • DeLillo, Don (1998) [1985]. White Noise (9th ed.). New York: Viking Critical Library.
  • Ishiguro, Kazuo (2006) [2005]. Never Let Me Go. New York: Vintage.
  • Mailer, Norman (2013) [1965]. An American Dream. New York: Random House.
  • Morrison, Toni (2007) [1970]. The Bluest Eye. New York: Vintage.
  • Tiptree, James (1996) [1976]. Houston, Houston, Do You Read?. New York: Doubleday Book. (Will be available as a PDF.)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt (1999) [1969]. Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel. New York: Dial Press.
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