American Literature in the World Class List

March 30, 2015

By Nancy Kuhl

Resources for Professor Wai Chee Dimock’s American Literature in the World class, Spring 2015  (ENG 033/AM STUD 033).

Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Manuscripts and excerpts: YCAL MSS 76 Boxes 4 & 5 (including Vanity Fair publication)
 
Stein’s American Lecture Tour
Clippings: YCAL MSS 76     Box 144                     
Photographs: YCAL MSS 76 Box 149       
  
Writings of Gertrude Stein
Carnets: YCAL MSS 76 Box 92                    
 
James Baldwin
Manuscripts drafts of a novel, “Crying Holy” (which evolved much later into Baldwin’s first novel, “Go Tell It On the Mountain”)
JWJ MSS 21 Box 1
 
Typescript draft of Baldwin’s Another Country (New York: Dial Pub., 1962) and related correspondence to Mary Garin-Painter, David Adams Leeming, and Eugene Lerner dating from 1953 to 1987.
JWJ MSS 107 Boxes 1 & 2