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Part I: ACTS OF INTERPRETATION.
1. Critical Thinking and Critical Analysis of Literature.
2. The Reading Process.
3. The Writing Process: Writing the Essay about Literature.
4. Forms of Arguments about Literature.

Part II: THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY.
5. Identity and Rites of Passage. Crossing the Genres/Identity and the Body. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (Fiction). Heinz Insu Fenkl, "My Fathers Hand " from Memories of my Ghost Brother (Fiction/Memoir). Marie Howe, "The Attic" (Poetry). Rita Dove, "Adolescence I, II, III" (Poetry). Alissa Quart,"Body Branding: Cosmetic Surgery" from Branded (Nonfiction). FICTION. Wendi Kaufman, "Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street. " John Updike, "A & P. " Liliana Heker, "The Stolen Party. " Barbara Kingsolver, "Rose-Johnny. " Daniel Alarc?n, "Flood. " Raymond Carver, "Cathedral. "Fairy Tales/Fiction. Nadine Gordimer, "Once Upon a Time. " Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves. " On the Web: Introduction to Fairy Tales. POETRY. Diane Wakoski, "Wind Secrets. " Countee Cullen, "Incident. " Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. " Gary Soto, "Oranges. " Audre Lorde, "Hanging Fire. " Nikki Giovanni, "Ego Tripping. " Nikki Giovanni, "Quilts. " Anne Sexton, "Cinderella. " Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, "Ah Mah. " Neal Bowers, "Driving Lessons. " Stephen Dunn, "The Sacred. " Barbara Hamby, "Ode to my 1977 Toyota. "Metamorphoses/Poetry. Cathy Song, "Lost Sister. " Naomi Shihab Nye, "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl. " Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways. " Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Note. " Ha Jin, "The Past. " General Ulysses S. Awesome, "Who Places Things Exactly. "DRAMA. Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive. Henrik Ibsen, A Dolls House. NONFICTION. Lynn Smith, "Betwixt and Bewildered: Scholars Are Intrigued by the Angst of 'Emerging Adults. " Gretel Ehrlich, "Looking for a Lost Dog. " Bruno Bettelheim, "The Uses of Enchantment. " Azar Nafisi, from Reading Lolita in Tehran. Pilgrimages. Escape or Enlightenment?/Nonfiction. Jonathan Lethem, "13, 1977,
21. " Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That. " On the Web: Pilgrimages/Road Trips. Graphic Literature: Marjane Satrapi, "The Veil" and "The Black Market Tapes" from Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.
6. The Self and Beyond. Crossing the Genres/Family Secrets. Mary Gaitskill, "Tiny, Smiling Daddy" (Fiction). Edwidge Danticat, "Night Talkers" (Fiction). Robyn Joy Leff, "Burn Your Maps" (Fiction). Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" (Poetry). Bell hooks, Chapters 49, 50, 51 from bone black (Nonfiction). FICTION. Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing. " Dean Bakopoulos, "Some Memories of My Father" from Please Dont Come Back from the Moon. James Baldwin, "Sonnys Blues. " Alice Walker, "Everyday Use. " Amy Tan, "Scar" from The Joy Luck Club. Louise Erdrich,"The Shawl. "The Family Gothic/Fiction. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Rappaccinis Daughter. " William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily. " Mary Gordon, "City Life. " On the Web: Visions of Hauntings: Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. POETRY. Amiri Baraka, "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note. " Grace Paley, "Fathers. " Sylvia Plath, "Daddy. " Simon Ortiz, "My Fathers Song. " Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons. " Seamus Heaney, "Digging. " Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl. " Pauline Powers Uchmanowicz, "KneeDeep In Mud My Mother. " Billy Collins, "The Lanyard. " Anne Sexton, "My Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman. " Maxine Kumin, "Making the Jam Without You. " Etheridge Knight, "The Idea of Ancestry. " Agha Shahid Ali, "Snowmen. " Marilyn Chin, "Turtle Soup. "Loss and Family/Poems. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Slave Mother. " D. H. Lawrence, "Piano. " Harold A. Zlotnik, "Odyssey. " Martin Espada, "Coca-cola and Coco Frio. " Dwight Okita, "The Nice Thing about Counting Stars. " Julia Alvarez, "Homecoming. " Sharon Olds, "I Go Back toMay
1937. "DRAMA. August Wilson, The Piano Lesson. NONFICTION. Toi Derricotte, "Beginning Dialogues. " David Sedaris, "The Girl Next Door. " Chang-rae Lee, "Coming Home Again. " Geeta Kothari, "If Yo