Texts and Editions

The following texts will be made available at the beginning of the term at the Whitman College book store. If you choose to secure these texts through another source, make sure to obtain the correct editions; see the ISBN numbers to make sure you have the correct editions. Since you’ll be using these books in class to support your interpretations and arguments by directing your fellow discussants to particular passages in the text, it is important for everyone to have the same editions.

Fall Semester

Jacob Hashimoto, "When Nothing Ends, Nothing Remains," 2016. Installation in Penrose.
Yuichi Seirai, “Shells,” in Ground Zero: Nagasaki, Paul Warham, trans., Columbia University Press. Available online.
Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0190233109.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Vintage, 2011. ISBN-10: 030727778X.
Karl Marx, Selected Writings. Ed. Laurence H. Simon. Hackett, 1994. ISBN: 0872202186.
Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn, Reissue Edition, W. W. Norton and Co., 1995. ISBN-13: 978-0393312379
Pedro Almodóvar, All About my Mother (film). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. College hosts screenings; students are not required to purchase film.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Robert Langbaum, ed. Signet Classics Editions, 1998. ISBN-13: 9780451527127
Aimé Césaire, A Tempest, Richard Miller, trans. Theatre Communications Group, 2002. ISBN-13: 9781559362108
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN-10: 0486280411.

Spring Semester

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality. Trans. Clark, Maudemarie and Alan Swenson. Hackett, 1998. ISBN-13: 9780872202832.
Therīgāthā: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, Charles Hallisey, trans., Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-0674427792
Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, Ballantine, 1987. ISBN-13: 978-0345350688
Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, Raymond Rosenthal, trans., Schocken, 1995. ISBN-13: 978-0805210415. Selections from Survival in Auschwitz will be made available online.
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Grand Central Publishing, 2000. ISBN-13: 978-0446675505
The New Testament, NRSV, Tellings of the parable of the sower from Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Available online.
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (film). Criterion Collection. Provided through Kanopy streaming service and Penrose Library; students are not required to purchase film.
Ross Gay, The Book of Delights, Algonquin Books, 2019. ISBN-13: 978-1616207922.
Sophocles, Philoctetes, Carl Phillips, trans., Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0195136579.