{"id":4198,"date":"2022-06-03T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2023-05-01T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T07:00:13","slug":"suggested-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2022\/06\/03\/suggested-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggested Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4201 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of works by noted authors and filmmakers compiled by the Faculty of American Culture and Literature:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michelle Alexander, <em>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness <\/em>(2010)<\/p>\n<p>Ben Burgess Jr.,\u00a0<em>Defining Moments: Black and White<\/em>\u00a0(2020)<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Carter, <em>The Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood\u2019s Frontier Narrative <\/em>(2014)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Coviello, <em>Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism<\/em> (2019)<\/p>\n<p>Terry Eagleton,\u00a0<em>Culture\u00a0<\/em>(2016)<\/p>\n<p>James Horn,\u00a0<em>A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America\u00a0<\/em>(2021)<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Jacobs, <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl<\/em> (1861)<\/p>\n<p>Emily Ogden, <em>Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism<\/em> (2018)<\/p>\n<p>Janice Radway, et al., <em>American Studies: An Anthology <\/em>(2009)<\/p>\n<p>Julius Scott,\u00a0<em>The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution\u00a0<\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n<p>Susan Stryker, <em>Transgender History, Second Edition: The Roots of Today\u2019s Revolution <\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Black,\u00a0<em>Listen to the Lambs<\/em>\u00a0(2016)<\/p>\n<p>Kalisha Buckhanon,\u00a0<em>Speaking of Summer<\/em>\u00a0(2019)<\/p>\n<p>Ursula K. LeGuin, <em>The Dispossessed <\/em>(1974)<\/p>\n<p>George Lippard, <em>The Quaker City, or the Monks of Monk Hall\u00a0<\/em>(1845)<\/p>\n<p>Walter Mosley,\u00a0<em>The Right Mistake<\/em>\u00a0(2008)<\/p>\n<p>Victoria C. Murray,\u00a0<em>Stand Your Ground<\/em>\u00a0(2015)<\/p>\n<p>John Steinbeck, <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em> (1939)<\/p>\n<p>Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,\u00a0<em>Lost Ghosts: The Complete Weird Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman\u00a0<\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Ox-Bow Incident <\/em>(William Wellman, 1943)<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (Frank Capra, 1946)<\/p>\n<p><em>Giant<\/em> (George Stevens, 1956)<\/p>\n<p><em>Unforgiven<\/em> (Clint Eastwood, 1992)<\/p>\n<p><em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em> (Steven Spielberg, 1977)<\/p>\n<p><em>Interstellar\u00a0<\/em>(Christopher Nolan, 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of works by noted authors and filmmakers compiled by the Faculty of American Culture and Literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}