Litteratur
Arthur Miller: The Crucible,
Joseph Heller: Catch-22,
Jack Kerouac: On the Road,
John Updike: Rabbit, Run,
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun,
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar,
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Fifth Edition Shorter),
Utvalg (Selection):
- Allen Ginsberg. "Howl", Part I
- Bernard Malamud. "The Magic Barrel"
- Gwendolyn Brooks "To the Diaspora"
- Sylvia Plath: "Lady Lazarus"
Compendium 'ENG2311 America in the 50s & 60s' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika).
- Gwendolyn Brooks. "The Lovers of the Poor"
- James Baldwin. "Sonny's Blues"
- Grace Paley, "The Loudest Voice"
- Bob Dylan. "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , "With God on Our Side"
Kulturkunnskap
Prim?rlitteratur (Primary reading)
Paul S. Boyer: Promises to Keep: The United States since World War II, 2nd ed., 1999. Chapters 3-11.
William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, eds.: A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America. 6th ed. , 2003. Chapters which are primary reading are specified below.
Part 1: The Cold War Abroad and At Home
- Introduction
- The Need to Contain Soviet Expansion - George F. Kennan, 13
- The Truman Doctrine - Harry S. Truman, 19
- NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council, 23
- HUAC Investigates Hollywood, 28
- The Internal Communist Menace - Joseph R. McCarthy, 37
Part 2: The Politics of the Affluent Society
- Introduction
- A Revisionist View of Eisenhower - Stephen Ambrose, 78
- “The Great Society: Remarks at the University of Michigan” (1964) – Lyndon B. Johnson, 97
- Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism – Bruce J. Schulman, 102
Part 3: Civil Rights and Racial Justice
- Introduction
- Declaration of Constitutional Principles: The Southern Manifesto (1956), 126
- A Lunch-Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi (1968) – Anne Moody, 146
- Black Panther Party, What We Want, What We Believe (1966), 161
- Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation (1969), 173
Part 4: Struggles over Gender and Sexual Liberation
- Introduction
- No More Miss America (1968) – Robin Morgan and New York Radical Women, 198
- What’s Wrong with “Equal Rights” for Women? (1972) – Phyllis Schlafly, 207
- Sexual Revolution(s) – Beth Bailey, 227
Part 5: Vietnam War
- Introduction
- “Dump Johnson” – William H. Chafe, 263
- Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971) – John Kerry, 275
- In Retrospect – Robert McNamara, 285
- The Genuine Lessons of the Vietnam War – Michael Lind, 290
Part 6: Years of Polarization
- Introduction
- The Port Huron Statement - Students for a Democratic Society (1962), 298
- Counterculture – Terry H. Anderson, 307
- The Forgotten American - Peter Schrag (1969), 325
Sekund?rlitteratur (secondary reading)
John P. Diggins: The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960, 1988. Norton.
John M. Blum: Years of Discord: American Politics, 1961-1974, 1991. Norton.