Materiales de estudio obligatorio:
Selección de textos, artículos y materiales gráficos y audiovisuales proporcionados o recomendados por el profesorado a lo largo del curso.
Bibliografía básica:
El alumnado deberá hacerse con una copia de las dos novelas que se leerán íntegras en la asignatura: The Great Gatsby, de Francis S. Fitzgerald, y The Bluest Eye, de Toni Morrison. El resto de lecturas obligatorias serán proporcionadas a través del Campus Virtual o directamente por el profesorado e incluirán poemas, relatos, textos teatrales y extractos de obras que serán también objeto de estudio/trabajo y, por tanto, parte del material evaluable de la asignatura.
Bibliografía complementaria de consulta:
Bates, Milton J. 1996. The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. Berkeley: U of California P.
Baym, Nina, ed. 2003. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: Norton.
Berkowitz, Gerald M. 1992. American Drama of the Twentieth Century. London and New York: Longman.
Bigsby, Christopher. 2000. Modern American Drama, 1945-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Bragard, Véronique, Christopher Dony and Warren Rosenberg. 2011. Portraying 9/11. Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.
Cullen, Jim. 2004. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Elliot, Emory, coord. 1991. Historia de la literatura norteamericana. Madrid: Cátedra.
Gray, Richard. 2011. After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
Kenneth, Millard. 2000. Contemporary American Fiction. An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Lauter, Paul, ed. 2006. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Melling, Philip H. 1990. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Twayne.
Neal, Arthur G. 2005. National Trauma and Collective Memory: Major Events in the American Century (2nd ed.). Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.
Perkins, George, and Barbara Perkins. 1994. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Phillips, Dana. 1999. “Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology”. New Literary History 30 (3): 577-602.
Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. 1992. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature. New York: Penguin.
Walker, Marshall. 1988. The Literature of the United States of America. Houndmills: MacMillan.