Readings
FMS at UW-Madison grew from the Minority Studies Reading Group, a founding project that works to bring together faculty members and graduate students across disciplines to share readings in minority literatures. At the heart of this inherently collaborative project is the view that the practice of reading enables social transformation. Find below a partial list of past and future readings in minority literatures, criticism, and theory.
Alcoff, Linda Martín. “The Problem of Speaking for Others.” Cultural Critique 20 (1991-92): 5-32.
Attridge, Derek. “Innovation, Literature, Ethics: Relating to the Other.” Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114.1 (1999): 20-31.
Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. New York: Delta, 1956.
Bridgforth, Sharon. The Bull-Jean Stories. Austin, Tex.: RedBone Press, 1998.
Butler, Johnnella E. “African American Literature and Realist Theory: Seeking the ‘true-true’.” Identity Politics Reconsidered. Eds. Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 171-92.
Cather, Willa. “Paul’s Case.” Collected Short Fiction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965. 243-61.
Dandicat, Edwidge. “Water Child.” The Dew Breaker. New York: Vintage, 2005.
Díaz, Junot. Drown. New York: Riverhead, 1996.
Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. New York: One World, 1992.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory.” NWSA Journal 14.3 (2002): 1-32.
Halperin, David M. “Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality.” Representations 63 (Summer 1998): 93-120.
Hames-García, Michael R. Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
—.“‘Who Are Our Own People?’: Challenges for a Theory of Social Identity.” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism. Eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 102-29.
Hau, Caroline S. “On Representing Others: Intellectuals, Pedagogy, and the Uses of Error.” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism. Eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 133-70.
Kagawa, Joy. Obasan. New York: Anchor, 1992.
Lewis, Gail. “Welcome to the Margins: Diversity, Tolerance, and Policies of Exclusion.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 28.3 (2005): 536-58.
Linmark, R. Zamora. Rolling the R’s. New York: Kaya, 1995.
Mohanty, Satya P. “The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: On Beloved and the Postcolonial Condition. Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism. Eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 29-66.
Moraga, Cherríe. Loving in the War Years. Boston: South End Press, 1983.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987.
—. “Recitatif: (1983).” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1998. 2078-92.
Moya, Paula M. L. “Postmodernism, ‘Realism,’ and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism.” Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures. Eds. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. New York: Routledge, 1997. 125-50.
Nava, Michael. The Hidden Law. Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 1992.
Nguyen, Minh T. “’It Matters to Get the Facts Straight’: Joy Kagawa, Realism, and Objectivity of Values.” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism. Eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 171-204.
Phillips, Caryl. Crossing the River. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Sánchez-Casal, Susan, and Amie A. Macdonald. “Introduction: Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity.” Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference. Eds. Amie A. Macdonald and Susan Sánchez-Casal. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 1-28.
Sawyer, Paul. “Identity and Calling: Martin Luther King on War.” Identity Politics Reconsidered. Eds. Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 69-77.
Siebers, Tobin. “Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics.” Identity Politics Reconsidered. Eds. Linda Martín Alcoff, Michael Hames-García, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 10-30.
Teuton, Sean. “Postmodernism, ‘Realism,’ and American Indian Identity in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood.” American Indian Quarterly 25.4 (2001): 626-50.
Welch, James. Winter in the Blood. New York: Penguin, 1974.
Wilkerson, William S. “Is There Something You Need to Tell Me?: Coming Out and the Ambiguity of Experience.” Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Culture. Eds. Paula M. L. Moya and Michael R. Hames-García. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 251-278.
Williams, Raymond. “Structures of Feeling.” Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. 129-35.
Womack, Craig S. Drowning in Fire. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001
