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Field Exam/Dissertation Reading
List |
Twentieth-Century (Queer) Writers in Exile
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Primary Texts |
Henry James |
The
Bostonians (1886)
The Tragic
Muse (1890)
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André Gide |
The
Immoralist (1902) |
Gertrude Stein |
QED
(1903)
The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas (1933) |
Thomas Mann |
Death in Venice
(1913)
The Magic Mountain
(1924)
Doctor Faustus
(1948)
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E. M. Forster |
Maurice
(1913-14/1971) |
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) |
HERmione
(1926-27/1981) |
Janet Flanner |
The Cubical City
(1926) |
Nella Larsen |
Quicksand (1928)
Passing (1929) |
Claude McKay |
Home
to Harlem (1928)
Banjo
(1929)
Banana Bottom (1933) |
Stephen Spender |
The Temple
(1929) |
Langston Hughes |
Not
Without Laughter
(1930)
I Wonder as I Wander
(1956) |
Djuna Barnes |
Nightwood
(1936) |
Klaus Mann |
The
Pious Dance (1925)
Mephisto (1936)
Pathetic Symphony
(1948) |
Somerset Maugham |
Up at
the Villa (1941)
The Razor’s Edge
(1945) |
Jean
Genet |
Our
Lady of the Flowers
(1944)
Miracle of the Rose
(1946) |
Paul
Bowles |
The Sheltering Sky
(1947) |
Gore
Vidal |
The
City and the Pillar
(1948)
Myra Breckenridge
(1968) |
Juan
Goytisolo |
Marks
of Identity (1966)
Count
Julian (1970)
John the Landless
(1975) |
Christopher Isherwood |
The
World in the Evening
(1954)
Down
There on a Visit (1959)
A
Single Man (1964)
A Meeting by the River
(1967) |
James Baldwin |
Giovanni’s Room
(1956)
Another Country (1962)
Just Above My Head
(1979) |
William Burroughs |
Naked Lunch
(1959) |
John
Rechy |
City of Night
(1963) |
Manuel Puig |
Kiss of the Spider Woman
(1976) |
Audre Lorde |
Zami: A New Spelling of
My Name (1982) |
Arturo Islas |
The
Rain God (1984)
Migrant Souls (1990) |
Edmund White |
Caracole (1985)
The Beautiful Room Is
Empty (1988) |
Randall Kenan |
A Visitation of Spirits
(1989) |
Reinaldo Arenas |
The
Color of Summer
(1991)
Before Night Falls
(1993) |
SECONDary Texts |
Benedict Anderson |
Imagined Communities |
Gloria Anzaldúa |
Borderlands/La
Frontera: The New Mestiza |
Mikhail Bakhtin |
“The Bildungsroman and
Its Significance in the History of
Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel)”
The Dialogic Imagination
Toward a Philosophy of the
Act |
Lennard Davis |
Factual Fictions: The
Origins of the Novel
Resisting Novels:
Ideology and Fiction |
John
D’Emilio |
Making Trouble |
John
Hawley |
Postcolonial/Queer:
Theoretical Intersections |
Irving Howe |
“History and the Novel”
Politics and the Novel
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José
Muñoz |
Disidentifications |
Edward Said |
“Reflections on Exile” |
C.
Patton & B. Sanchez-Eppler |
Queer Diasporas |
Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick |
Between Men: English
Literature and Male Homosocial
Desire
Epistemology of the Closet
Novel
Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction |
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