Exam List: Contemporary Literature of the Americas (In English)
Novels
Bless Me Ultima (1972) – Rudolfo Anaya (US, Mexico)
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1978) – Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese US, China)
Obasan (1981) – Joy Kogawa (Japanese Canadian)
Annie John (1985) – Jamaica Kincaid (US, Antigua)
Beloved (1987) – Toni Morrison (US, black)
China Boy (1991) – Gus Lee (Chinese US, China)
Infinite Jest (1996) – David Foster Wallace (US, Canada, white)
Tropic of Orange (1997) – Karen Tei Yamashita (US, Mexico, Japanese American)
The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) – Junot Diaz (US, DR)
Short Stories
In a Free State (1973) – V.S. Naipaul (Trinidadian)
A Piece of Mine (1984) – J. California Cooper (US, black)
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991) – Sandra Cisneros (US, Latina)
Out on Main Street and Other Stories (1993) – Shani Mootoo (South Asian Canadian)
Interpreter of Maladies (1999)– Jhumpa Lahiri (US Indian)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999) – Annie Proulx (white US)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven (1993) – Sherman Alexie (Native American, US)
Drama
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (1976) – Ntozake Shange (US black)
Remembrance (1977) – Derek Walcott (St. Lucia, Caribbean, US)
Bellywoman Bangarang (1978) – Sistren Theatre Collective (Jamaica)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1985) – August Wilson (US, black)
The Rez Sisters (1986) – Tomson Highway (Canada, Cree)
Dog Lady (1988) – Milcha Sanchez-Scott (US, Latin America)
Angels in America (1990) – Tony Kushner (US, white)
Heroes and Saints (1992) – Cherríe Moraga (US, Chicano/a)
Poetry
Your Native Land, Your Life: Poems (1986) – Adrienne Rich (US, white)
Martin and Meditations on the South Valley (1987) – Jimmy Santiago Baca (US, Mexico, Apache)
Omeros (1990) – Dereck Walcott (US, St. Lucia)
Hoops (2006) – Major Jackson (US black)
Beneath My Heart (1990) – Janice Gould (Native American US)
Selections from Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1993) – Yusef Komunyakaa (US, black)
