Module V
- Primary Texts
- The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
- Houseboy
- So Long a Letter
- The Color Purple
- Parable of the Sower
- Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Secondary Texts
- Introduction and Afterword from The American Diary of a Japanese Girl annotated edition
- “’Who Am I?: Fact and Fiction in African First-Person Narrative” by Mineke Schipper appeared in Research in African Literatures vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1985
- “Writing About Writing: African Women’s Epistolary Narratives” by Suzanne Marie Ondrus
- Singer Chapter 9 Epistolary Fiction in America
- “Focalization Theory and the Epistolary Novel: A Narrative Analysis of The Color Purple” by Ping Zhou (lecturer will provide a copy)
- “Lettered Bodies and Corporeal Texts in The Color Purple” by Wendy Wall appeared in Studies in American Fiction vol. 16, no. 1, 1988
- “The Epistolary Text: A Voice of Affirmation and Liberation in So Long a Letter and The Color Purple” by Kathy Dunn Jackson (lecturer will provide copy)
- “Re-visions, Re-flections, Re-creations: Epistolarity in Novels by Contemporary Women” by Elizabeth Campbell appeared in Twentieth Century Literature vol. 41, no. 3, 1995
- Primary Texts