A series of short papers required. Texts Jack Hicks, et al., The Literature of California , Volume I. University of California Press. If He Hollers Let Him Go . Thunder s Mouth Press ISBN 1560250976 Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation . An intensive graduate seminar in prose works of California literature over the last 100 years, texts chosen from the early fictional and nonfictional works of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Sui Sin Far, Mary Austin, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes and John Steinbeck, and later prose by Joan Didion, Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Leguin.
Seminar reports and class papers.
Contact instructor Jack Hicks for additional information. Jack Hicks, et al. Volume I , ed.