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Your Name Louis Paolin Wu Department: English Date of exam Jan 2011 Committee: Tom Schaub, Russ Castronovo, Rob Nixon

Race, , Multicultural Environmental Criticism (This list is a revised version of my prelim exam with some more recommended readings added)

1. American Indian Myths and Legends

2. Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation of Á lvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)

3. Thomas Morton, New English Canaan (1637)

4. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (1650)

5. Mary White Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

6. St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

7. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)

8. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (1823)

9. ---. The Prairie (1826)

10. William Apess, A Son of the Forest (1829)

11. , Walden (1854)

12. ---. Maine Woods (1864)

13. ---. “Resistance to Civil Government,” “Walking,” “Wild Apples,” “Life without Principle,” “Slavery in Massachusetts”

14. Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit” (1843), Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844)

15. Herman Melville, Typee (1846)

16. ---. Moby-Dick (1851)

17. , Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (1852)

18. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845)

19. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

20. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

21. Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, The Squatter and the Don (1885)

22. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of Pointed Furs (1896)

23. Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901)

24. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

25. Mary Hunter Austin, Land of Little Rain (1903)

26. , The Jungle (1906)

27. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)

28. , O Pioneers (1913); My Antonia (1918)

29. Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks (1932)

30. Zora N. Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

31. , (1939)

32. , Go Down Moses (1942)

33. ---. Big Woods: The Hunting Stories

34. , In Our Time (1925); The Sun Also Rises (1926); (1952)

35. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) and “How Bigger was Born”

36. Aldo Leopold, A County Almanac (1949)

37. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

38. Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (1958)

39. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

40. Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968)

41. Scott N Momaday, (1968)

42. , and Cold Mountain Poems (1969), Turtle Island (1974), The Practice of the Wild (1990)

43. , The Angle of Repose (1971)

44. John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid (1971); The Control of Nature (1989)

45. Rudolph Anaya, Bless Me Ultima (1972)

46. Annie Dillard, (1974)

47. , Ceremony (1977)

48. Peter Matthiessen, Leopard (1978); Far Tortuga (1975)

49. John Okada, No-No Boy (1978)

50. Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (1980)

51. , (1982); In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)

52. , She Had Some Horses (1983), How We Become Human (2002)

53. Yoshiko Uchida, Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family (1984)

54. , The House on Mango Street (1984)

55. Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (1985)

56. Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (1986)

57. , Fools Crow (1986)

58. , (1987)

59. Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)

60. , Tracks (1988)

61. , Black Mesa Poems (1989)

62. , Animal Dreams (1990)

63. , Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990)

64. Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (1991)

65. Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991)

66. Alice Walker, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (1991)

67. , Donald Duk (1991)

68. Simon J. Ortiz, Woven Stone (1992),

69. Fae Myenne Ng, Bone (1993)

70. , (1993)

71. , Solar Storms (1995)

72. David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996)

73. Lisa See, On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1996)

74. Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 (1999)

75. Lauren Kessler, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (2008)

76. Langston Hughes’ Montage of a Dream Deferred; Gwendolyn Brooks' selected poetry; the poetry of /Leroi Jones; Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Dien Cai Dau” or “Magic City”

77. Camille T. Dungy, ed. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009)

Secondary Sources

78. Roderick Frazier Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (1965)

79. Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (1973)

80. Annette Kolodny, The Lay of the Land (1975)

81. William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983); “Introduction” and “The Trouble with the Wilderness” in Uncommon Ground (1996)

82. Melvin Dixon, Ride out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature (1987)

83. Sucheng Chan, This Bittersweet : The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 (1989)

84. Marlon K. Hom, Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown (1992)

85. Patricia Nelson Limerick. “Disorientation and Reorientation: The American Landscape Discovered from the West.” Journal of American History 79.3 (1992): 1021-49.

86. Paul A. W. Wallace, White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life (1994)

87. Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples (1995)

88. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996)

89. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1996)

90. ---. Writing for an Endangered World (2001)

91. ---. The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005)

92. Michael Bennett, eds. The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments (1999)

93. Joni Adamson, American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place (2001)

94. Donelle N. Dreese, Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures (2002)

95. Alison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret E. Savoy, eds. The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002)

96. Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek. “Introduction. The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: of Power and Practice.” Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (2003)

97. Bruce Braun. “’On the Raggedy Edge of Risk’: Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology.” Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (2003)

98. Carolyn Merchant, Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Culture (2004)

99. Jeffrey Myers, Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature (2005)

100. Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, eds. To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History (2005)

101. Robert T. Hayashi. “Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism.” Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (2007)

102. Daniel J. Martin. “Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide.” Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (2007)

103. Kimberly K. Smith, African American Environmental Thought: Foundations (2007)

104. , Belonging: A Culture of Place (2008)

105. Paul Outka, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (2008)

106. Sean Kicummah Teuton, Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (2008)

107. Ian Frederick Finseth, Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 (2009)

108. Dianne D. Glave, Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage (2010)

109. Kimberly N. Ruffin, Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions (2010)