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Period D:
Literature in English, 1901-Present

(75 authors, 82+ titles, 7 films)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1902)

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks (1903)
John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Stories (1912)
James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (1916)
George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House (1919)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923)
Jean Toomer, Cane(1923)
William Carlos Williams, Spring & All (1923)
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars (1926)
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues (1926)
James Weldon Johnson, Gods Trombones (1927)
Augusta Gregory, Selected Plays (1904-1928)
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
D. H. Lawrence, Collected Stories (1994 [1907-1930])
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Gertrude Stein, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
W.B. Yeats, Selected Poetry and Four Plays (1939)
Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart (1946)
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh (1947)
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949)
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1949)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1954)
Ezra Pound, Cantos (1954)
Allen Ginsburg, Howl (1955)
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Hilda Doolittle (HD), Selected Poems (1957)
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Short Stories (1971 [1950-64])
Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962)
Amiri Baraka, Dutchman (1964)
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (1965)

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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

Jean Rhys,Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire (1968)
Derek Walcott, Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1970)
Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House (1971)
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972 (1973)
Gary Snyder, Turtle Island (1974)
Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide (1975)
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976)
Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood (1977)
Nadine Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter (1979)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1980)
Brian Friel, Translations (1980)
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (1983)
Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1984)
Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (1988)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1988)
August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988)
Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (1988)
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (1989)
Susan Howe, Singularities (1990)
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (1990)
Américo Paredes, George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel (1990)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium
Approaches (1991)
Kamau Brathwaite, Black+ Blues (1995)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (1998)
Seamus Boland, The Lost Land (1998)

Film
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1939)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1955)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1988)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1990)