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- Stories of the Beginning of the World [N1]
- Native American Oral Poetry [H]
- Native American Trickster Tales [N1]
- America in the European Imagination [H]
- Cultural Encounters – A Critical Survey [H]
- * First Encounters: Early European Accounts of Native America [N1]
- Native Americans: Contact and Conflict [N1]
- Native Americans: Removal and Resistance [N1]
- Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads [H]
- The Vernacular Tradition [N2]
- Songs of the Slaves [H]
- Songs of White Communities [H]
- African American Folktales [H]
- Tales from the Hispanic Southwest [N1, H]
- * Critical Controversy: Race and the Ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [N1]
- World War I and Its Aftermath [N1]
- Debates over “Americanization”
- Postmodern Manifestos [N1]
- Creative Nonfiction [N1] *
- Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
| WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD TEXT or SET OF TEXTS TO END ON?Assorted Categories/Groupings of the Anthologies
Most anthologies start with a set of “epic” or “folk” texts, but they are rarely the same texts. How do we feel about this genre for a new anthology? Should they be separated or included in the general chronological flow of first recorded appearance? Stories of the Beginning of the World [N1] The Iroquois Creation Story The Navajo Creation Story Irvin Morris: Hajííneí (The Emergence)
Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni) Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo) Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota) The Origin of Stories (Seneca) Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois) Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Christine Dunham, Oglala Sioux) Raven and Marriage (Tlingit) The Bungling Host (Hitchiti) Creation of the Whites (Yuchi) Native American Oral Poetry [H] Zuni Poetry ----------- Sayatasha's Night Chant Aztec Poetry ----------- The Singer's Art ----------- Two Songs ----------- Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan) Inuit Poetry ----------- Song (Copper Eskimo) ----------- Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo) ----------- Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo) ----------- Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo) ----------- My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo) A Selection of Poems Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-i, O'odham) Song (Aleut) Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah) A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot) Woman's Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green) Formula to Secure Love (Cherokee) Formula to Cause Death (A'yunini the Swimmer, Cherokee) Song of War (Blackfeet) War Song (Crow) Song of War (Odjib'we, Anishinabe) War Song (Young Doctor, Makah) Song of Famine (Holy-Face Bear, Dakota) Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota) Song of War (Victoria, Tohona O'odham) Native American Trickster Tales [N1] Winnebago Felix White Sr.’s Introduction to Wakjankaga (transcribed and translated by Kathleen Danker and Felix White)
Sioux Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater (transcribed and edited by Ella C. Deloria) Navajo Coyote, Skunk, and the Prairie Dogs (performed by Hugh Yellowman; recorded and translated by Barre Toelken)
Thomas More from Utopia Michel de Montaigne from Of Cannibals Theodor Galle, after a drawing by Jan van der Straet [Stradanus] America, c. 1575 John Donne Elegie XIX, To his Mistris Going to Bed Francis Bacon from New Atlantis Cultural Encounters – A Critical Survey [H] Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) from The Significance of the Frontier in American History [also in N1] Andrew Wiget from Reading Against the Grain: Origin Stories and American Literacy History Annette Kolodny from Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers Mary Louise Pratt from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Paul Gilroy from The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Paula M. L. Moya and Ramon Saldivar from Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary *First Encounters: Early European Accounts of Native America [N1] *Hernán Cortés Description of Tenochtitlan *Samuel De Champlain The Iroquois *Robert Juet From The Third Voyage of Master Henry Hudson *John Heckewelder Delaware Legend of Hudson’s Arrival *William Bradford and Edward Winslow Cape Cod Forays *John Underhill The Attack on Pequot Fort
Pontiac: Speech at Detroit Samson Occom: From A Short Narrative of My Life [also in H] Thomas Jefferson: Chief Logan’s Speech, From Notes on the State of Virginia Red Jacket: Reply to the Missionary Joseph Cram Tecumseh: Speech to the Osages Native Americans: Removal and Resistance [N1] Black Hawk: From Life of Black Hawk Petalesharo: Speech of the Pawnee Chief Speech of the Pawnee Loup Chief Elias Boudinot: From the Cherokee Phoenix Memorial of the Cherokee Citizens, November 5, 1829 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letter to President Martin Van Buren
The Liberty Song Alphabet The King's own Regulars, And their Triumphs over the Irregulars The Irishman's Epistle to the Officers and Troops at Boston The Yankee's Return from Camp Nathan Hale Sir Harry's Invitation Volunteer Boys "Loyalist" Voices When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm Song, for a Fishing Party near Burlington, on the Delaware, in 1776 Burrowing Yankees A Birthday Song, for the King's Birthday, June 4, 1777 A Song An Appeal The Vernacular Tradition [N2] SPIRITUALS City Called Heaven I Know Moon-Rise Ezekiel Saw de Wheel I’m a-Rollin’ Go Down, Moses [also in H] Been in the Storm So Long Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Steal Away to Jesus [also in H] Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? [also in H] God’s a-Gonna Trouble the Water Walk Together Children Soon I Will Be Done Come Sunday Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child GOSPEL This Little Light of Mine Down by the Riverside Freedom in the Air Take My Hand, Precious Lord Peace Be Still Stand by Me THE BLUES Good Morning, Blues Hellhound on My Trail C. C. Rider Backwater Blues Down-Hearted Blues Prove It on Me Blues Trouble in Mind How Long Blues Rock Me Baby Yellow Dog Blues St. Louis Blues Beale Street Blues The Hesitating Blues Goin’ to Chicago Blues Fine and Mellow Hoochie Coochie Sunnyland My Handy Man SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS, BALLADS, WORK SONGS, AND SONGS OF SOCIAL CHANGE SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS [We raise de wheat] Me and My Captain Promises of Freedom No More Auction Block Jack and Dinah Want Freedom Run, Nigger, Run Another Man Done Gone You May Go But This Will Bring You Back BALLADS John Henry Frankie and Johnny Railroad Bill The Signifying Monkey Stackolee Sinking of the Titanic Shine and the Titanic WORK SONGS Pick a Bale of Cotton Go Down, Old Hannah Can’t You Line It? SONGS OF SOCIAL CHANGE Oh, Freedom Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit We Shall Overcome Langston Hughes: The Backlash Blues Nina Simone: Four Women JAZZ
Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue King Pleasure: Parker’s Mood RHYTHM AND BLUES Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come Smokey Robinson: The Tracks of My Tears Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Dancin’ in the Street Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin: Respect Curtis Mayfield: We’re a Winner Marvin Gaye: What’s Goin’ On? Stevie Wonder: Living for the City HIP HOP
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message The Sugarhill’s Gang, Rapper’s Delight Public Enemy: Don’t Believe the Hype Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do Biggy Smalls—The Notorious B.I.G.: Things Done Changed Nas: N.Y. State of Mind Eric B. & Rakim: I Ain’t No Joke Outkast, Elevators or Rosa Parks
God
James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, A Prayer C. L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest Howard Thurman: O God, I Need Thee G. I. Townsel: The Way Out Is to Pray Out Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet James Alexander Forbes Jr.: O God of Love, Power and Justice Bert Williams: Elder Eatmore’s Sermon on Generosity FOLKTALES All God’s Chillen Had Wings Big Talk Deer Hunting Story How to Write a Letter “‘Member Youse a Nigger” “Ah’ll Beatcher Makin’ Money” Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest “De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard” The Ventriloquist You Talk Too Much, Anyhow A Flying Fool Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf What the Rabbit Learned
Animal Tales ----------- When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race ----------- Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit ----------- How Sandy Got His Meat ----------- Who Ate Up the Butter? ----------- Fox and Rabbit in the Well ----------- The Signifying Monkey Memories of Slavery ----------- Malitis ----------- The Flying Africans Conjure Stories ----------- Two Tales from Eatonville, Florida John and Old Marster ----------- Master Disguised ----------- The Diviner ----------- Massa and the Bear ----------- Baby in the Crib ----------- John Steals a Pig and a Sheep ----------- Talking Bones ----------- Old Boss Wants into Heaven Tales from the Hispanic Southwest [N1, H] La comadre Sebastiana/ Doña Sebastiana [N1] Los tres hermanos/ The Three Brothers [N1] El obispo/ The New Bishop [N1] El indito de las cien vacas/ The Indian and the Hundred Cows [N1] La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe [N1] La Llorona, La Malinche, and the Unfaithful Maria The Devil Woman Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) [N1, H] Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte America (Journey to the United States)
*Leo Marx: From Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn *Julius Lester: From Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *Justin Kaplan: From Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn *David L. Smith: From Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse *Jane Smiley: From Say It Ain’t So Huck: Second Thoughts on Mark Twain’s Literary Masterpiece *Toni Morrison: From Introduction to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *Shelley Fisher Fishkin: From Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture World War I and Its Aftermath [N1] Alan Seeger: I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . . Ernest Hemingway: Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents E. E. Cummings: From The Enormous Room Jessie Redmon Fauset: From There Is Confusion [also in N2] John Allan Wyeth, Jr.: Fromereville Gertrude Stein: From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Frederick Jackson Turner: From The Significance of the Frontier in American History [also in H] *Theodore Roosevelt: From The Winning of the West *Albert Beveridge: From The March of the Flag José Martí: From Our America [also in H] Helen Hunt Jackson: From A Century of Dishonor Jane Addams: From Twenty Years at Hull-House From Chapter V. First Days at Hull House Chapter XI. Immigrants and Their Children *Mourning Dove (1888–1936) CogeweaThe Ladies Race Modernist Manifestos F. T. Marinetti: From Manifesto of Futurism Mina Loy: Feminist Manifesto Ezra Pound: From A Retrospect [also in H] Willa Cather: From The Novel Démeublé William Carlos Williams: From Spring and All [also in H] Langston Hughes: From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain [also in N2 & H]
Ronald Sukenick: Innovative Fiction/Innovative Criteria William H. Gass: The Medium of Fiction Hunter S. Thompson: From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Charles Olson: From Projective Verse Frank O’Hara: From Personism: A Manifesto Elizabeth Bishop: From Letter to Robert Lowell, March 21, 1972 A. R. Ammons: From A Poem Is a Walk Audre Lorde: From Poetry Is Not a Luxury [also in N2] Ishmael Reed, “Neo-Hoodoo Manifesto” Creative Nonfiction [N1] *Edward Abbey: From Desert Solitaire *Barry Lopez: From Desert Notes *Dorothy Allison: From Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories *John Crawford: From The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell *Joan Didion: From The Year of Magical Thinking
*Edwidge Danticat: From Brother, I’m Dying Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place Corridos [H] Kiansis I/Kansas I Gregorio Cortez Jacinto Treviño Hijo Desobediente/The Disobedient Son Recordando al Presidente/Remembering the President Corrido de César Chávez/Ballad of César Chávez Los Tigres del Norte, various corridos (must choose) Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants from The Voyage ----------- 5 [Four days before the Qiqiao Festival] ----------- 8 [Instead of remaining a citizen of China, I willingly became an ox] from The Detainment ----------- 20 [Imprisonment at Youli, when will it end?] ----------- 30 [After leaping into prison, I cannot come out] ----------- 31 [There are tens of thousands of poems composed on these walls] from The Weak Shall Conquer ----------- 35 [Leaving behind my writing brush and removing my sword, I came] ----------- 38 [Being idle in the wooden building, I opened a window] ----------- 42 [The dragon out of water is humiliated by ants] from About Westerners ----------- 51 [I hastened here for the sake of my stomach and landed promptly] ----------- 55 [Shocking news, truly sad, reached my ears] from Deportees, Transients ----------- 57 [On a long voyage I travelled across the sea] ----------- 64 Crude Poem Inspired by the Landscape ----------- 69 [Detained in this wooden house for several tens of days] Directory: docs docs -> Application for acem docs -> Observational Assessment of Teaching Practices Teaching Assessment Initiative Proposal Submitted to The Teachers for a New Era project docs -> Traditional British values docs -> From Warfighters to Crimefighters: The Origins of Domestic Police Militarization docs -> Borzoi Club of America Register of Merit Program I. What is a Register Of Merit docs -> Protecting the rights of the child in the context of migration docs -> United Nations E/C. 12/Esp/5 docs -> 9th May 1950 the schuman declaration docs -> Getting To Outcomes® in Services for Homeless Veterans 10 Steps for Achieving Accountability Download 0.91 Mb. Share with your friends:
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