Readings: Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” (2428); N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain (2504); Anaya’s “The Christmas Play” (2515); Kingston’s “No Name Woman” (2557); Ginsberg’s Howl (2732); Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” (2778) and “Daddy” (2781); and Li-Young Lee, all poems (2848). Be sure to read the introductions to each of the authors. Select one work from this week’s readings and make a case that this work does or does not belong in the American literary canon for a course like ours, a college survey course of American writers. Unlike the previous essays in the course, this essay absolutely requires the use of secondary sources.
