Ph.D. Oral Examination
Period List

Contemporary Americas
1930-2001

James M. Cocola
University of Virginia

 
Last Updated 2005.01.18
 

William Faulkner

Pablo Neruda

Aimé Césaire

Elizabeth Bishop

Leslie Marmon Silko

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

William T. Vollmann

Poetry

Ezra Pound [U.S. / England / Italy]
The Cantos XXXI-LXXXIV (1930-48)

Pablo Neruda [Chile]
Canto General
General Song (1939-48; 1950)

Robert Frost [U.S.]
"The Gift Outright" (1942); "Directive" (1947); "America Is Hard To See" (1951); "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration" (1961)

Langston Hughes [U.S.]
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)

W.S. Merwin [U.S. / France / Hawai'i]
"Low Fields and Light" (1955); "The Asians Dying" (1967); "Homeland" (1970); "Questions To Tourists Stopped By A Pineapple Field" (1982)

Louise Bennett [Jamaica]
"Colonization In Reverse" (1957); "Dry Foot Bwoy" (1957); "Independance" (1961); "Jamaica Oman" (1975)

Elizabeth Bishop [U.S. / Canada / Brazil]
Questions of Travel (1965)

Ernesto Cardenal [Nicaragua]
Homenaje a Los Indios Americanos
Homage to the American Indians (1969)

Derek Walcott [St. Lucia]
"Elegy" (1968); "The Sea Is History" (1979); "The Schooner Flight" (1979)

Adrienne Rich [U.S.]
"The Burning of Paper Instead of Children" (1968); "From an Old House In America" (1974); "North American Time"(1982); "Yom Kippur 1984" (1985)

A.R. Ammons [U.S.]
Garbage (1993)

Joy Harjo [Muskogee / Hawai'i]
"I Am A Dangerous Woman" (1979); "Anchorage" (1983); "I Give You Back" (1993); "My House Is The Red Earth" (1989); "Wolf Warrior" (1994); "A Map To The Next World" (2000)

Fiction

John Dos Passos [U.S.]
USA: The Big Money(1936)

Zora Neale Hurston [U.S.]
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

William Faulkner [U.S.]
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Wild Palms (1939)

William Faulkner [U.S.]
Go Down, Moses (1942)

Jorge Luis Borges [Argentina]
Ficciones
Fictions (1944)

Yukio Mishima [Japan]
Kinkakuji
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)

Wilson Harris [Guyana]
The Palace of the Peacock (1960)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Colombia]
Cien Años de Soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1965)

Ishmael Reed [U.S.]
Mumbo Jumbo (1971)

Leslie Marmon Silko [Laguna Pueblo]
Ceremony (1977)

Cormac McCarthy [U.S.]
Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West (1985)

Leslie Marmon Silko [Laguna Pueblo]
Almanac of the Dead (1991)

Patrick Chamoiseau [Martinique]
Texaco (1992)

Thomas Pynchon [U.S.]
Mason and Dixon (1997)

William T. Vollmann [U.S., et al.]
Argall (2001)

Cultural Thought

Octavio Paz [Mexico]
El Laberinto de la Soledad
Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

C.L.R. James [Trinidad / England]
Beyond a Boundary (1962)

Marshall McLuhan [Canada]
Understanding Media:
The Extensions of Man
(1964)

Norman Mailer [U.S.]
The Armies of the Night (1968)

Edouard Glissant [Martinique]
Le Discours Antillais
Caribbean Discourse (1981)

Eduardo Galeano [Uruguay]
Memoria del Fuego
Memory of Fire (1982-6)

Gloria Anzaldúa [Mexico / Aztlán / U.S.]
Borderlands / La Frontera (1987)

Trinh T. Minh-ha [Vietnam / U.S.]
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postocoloniality and Feminism (1989)

Haunani-Kay Trask [Hawai'i]
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i (1993; 1999)

Drama

René Marqués [Puerto Rico]
La Carreta
The Ox-Cart (1951)

Arthur Miller [U.S.]
The Crucible (1953)

Aimé Césaire [Martinique / France]
Une Tempete
A Tempest (1968)

Sam Shepard [U.S.]
True West (1980)

LeAnne Howe and Roxy Gordon [Choctaw]
Indian Radio Days: An Evolving Bingo Experience (1988)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña [Mexico / Aztlán / U.S.]
Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts and Poetry (1993)

Criticism and Theory

Edward Soja [U.S.]
Postmodern Geographies (1989)

Amy Kaplan, Donald Pease, Eds. [U.S.]
Cultures of United States Imperialism (1993)

Arjun Appadurai [India / U.S.]
Modernity at Large (1996)

Susan Stanford Friedman [U.S.]
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Georgraphies of Encounter (1998)

J. Michael Dash [Trinidad, et al.]
The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998)

Janice Radway [U.S.]
"What's In A Name?" Address to the American Studies Association (1998)

Walter Mignolo [Argentina / U.S.]
Local Histories/Global Designs:
Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges
and Border Thinking
(2000)

 

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