Engelska A, 30 högskolepoäng

Litteratur och kultur I (Literature and Culture I)

●     Achebe, Chinua. 2003- Home and Exile. Edinburgh: Canongate Books, . (Handout, selection, ca 40 pages)

●     Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Handout (selection, ca. 20 pages).

●     Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions.2004. Banbury: Ayebia Clarke Publishing. (212 pages)

●     Ghosh, Amitav. The Hungry Tide. 2005. New York: HarperCollins. (416 pages)

●     Hall, Stuart. “The Work of Representation.” 1997. In Representation, London: SAGE. Handout. (17 pages)

●     Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. 2018. London: Faber and Faber. (304 pages)

●     Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Minute on Indian Education [1835]. Handout. (9 pages)

●     Ngugi wa Thiong’o. “Imperialism of Language.” Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. 1993. London: James Curry. Handout. (12 pages)

●     Orwell, George. “England Your England” [1941] . Handout. (13 pages)

●     Phillips, Caryl. “A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years of Caribbean Migration to Britain”, Kunapipi 21 (2), 1999. Handout. (12 pages)

●     Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 2012. New York: Norton Critical Edition. (ca. 200 pages).

●      This is England. 2006. Meadows.

● Supplementary material (ca. 50 pages)

Compulsory Writing Resource:

● Online Writing Lab at Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Grammatik (Grammar)

● Sharp, Harriet: Basic Language Analysis for Students of English, 6th ed., 2015

● Sharp, Harriet: Sharp Notes on English Grammar, 4th ed., 2018

These texts are only available at Harrys böcker at Södertörn University. (Total 125 pages)

Reference literature:

● Estling Vanneståhl, Maria. 2007. A University Grammar of English with a Swedish Perspective. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (516 pages)

Suggestions of Dictionaries:

● Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2014

● Macmillan English Dictionary: For Advanced Learners, 2nd ed., Oxford: Macmillan Ed, 2007

● Merriam Webster’s Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2008

● Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th ed., Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013

● Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary, 8th ed., 2014

Översiktskurs i engelsk språkvetenskap (Survey of English linguistics)

● Yule, George. 2017. The Study of Language. 6th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. (356 pages)

● Sharp, Harriet. 2nd ed 2019. Linguistic Terms in Short; a Complement to Survey Courses in Linguistics.

● Sharp Harriet. Exercise Compendium of the Survey Course in English Linguistics, 2021 (ca 120 pages)

The course also uses supplementary material provided by the teacher (ca 150 pages).

Litteratur och kultur II (Literature and culture II)

●     Alexie, Sherman. “Cry, Cry, Cry” Blasphemy, Grove P, 2013, and “What you Pawn, I Will Redeem” The New Yorker, 2003 (ca. 50 pages)

●     Berlin, Lucia. A Manual for Cleaning Women. Pan Macmillan, 2015. Selected stories, (ca. 100 pages)

●     Butler, Octavia. Kindred. Headline Book Publishing, 2018. (320 pages)

●     Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel and Grau, 2017. (152 pages)

●     Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. Harper Perennial, 1994. (ca 17 pages)

●     Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. and “Girl” (handout), (82 pages)

●     Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Selected chapters, (ca 50 pages)

●     Ortiz, Simon J. “Toward a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism.” MELUS, Vol. 8, No. 2, Ethnic Literature and Cultural Nationalism (1981), (pp. 7-12). Available on-line.

●     Roupenian, Kristen. “Cat Person,” The New Yorker Dec 4, 2017. Available on-line. (ca. 15 pages)

●     Rowlandson, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Project Gutenberg, 1997. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/851 Selection, (ca 12 pages)

●     Solnit, Rebecca. Men Explain Things to Me. Guernica, 2012, (ca 19 pages). Available online.

●     Spiegelman, Art. Maus. Pantheon Books, 1992. (159 pages)

●     Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Penguin Classics, 2009. (128 pages)

Compulsory Writing Resource:

● Online Writing Lab at Purdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/

Additional material can be handed out by the teacher, max 50 pages