Required reading:
Primary texts:
- W.E.B. Du Bois – The Quest of the Silver Fleece
- F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
- James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- Nella Larsen – Passing
- James T. Farrell – Judgment Day
- Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
- Angela Flournoy – The Turner House
- All texts are available at Akademika.
Secondary literature, available as pdf files in Fronter (in the Undervisnings folder)
- J. Hillis Miller, “Time in Literature”
- David Harvey, “The Social Construction of Time and Space”
- Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property” – selections
- Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Time Today”
- Karl Marx, Capital, vol.I, selections
- Gerard Genette, Narrative Discourse, selections
- Georg Simmel, The Philosophy of Money, selections
- Karl Marx – “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society”
Others tbd….