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Literary Minorities II - AAA133022

Title:	Literární minority II
Form of teaching:	seminar
Guaranteed by:	Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2025 to 2025
Duration in semesters:	1
Semester:	summer
Points:	0
E-Credits:	3
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / 15 (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Repeated enrollment:	1 / 1 / 1 / 1
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.
Class:	Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature

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OBJECTIVES 
Designed as a follow-up to “Literary Minorities,” the course focuses on selected later works of the 
same authors, specifically Toni Morrison’s Paradise and God Help the Child, Alice Walker’s 
Possessing the Secret of Joy and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God as well as a 
selection of stories, essays and poems by Sandra Cisneros, Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo. (It is not 
necessary to take “Literary Minorities” to sign up for “Literary Minorities II.”) 
SELECTED MATERIAL 
Brady, Mary Pat. “The Contrapuntal Geographies of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.” 
American Literature 71.1 (1999): 117-150. 
Cisneros, Sandra. A House of My Own. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. (selected essays) 
Cisneros, Sandra. Loose Woman. New York: Vintage, 1995. (selected poetry) 
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Vintage 1991. (selected 
stories) 
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Without Shame. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. (selected poetry) 
Erdrich, Louise. Future Home of the Living God. New York: HarperCollins, 2017. 
George, Olakunle. “Alice Walker’s Africa: Globalization and the Province of Fiction.” Comparative 
Literature 53.4 (2001): 354-372. 
Gerund, Katharina. “Transracial Feminist Alliances? Audre Lorde and West German Women.” In 
Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies, eds. Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck. Amherst: 
University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 
Gras, Delphine. “Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the 
Child.” Humanities 5.4 (2016): 1-18. 
Harjo, Joy. An American Sunrise. New York: Norton, 2020. (selected poetry) 
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015. (selected poetry) 
Lorde, Audre. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. In The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New 
York: Norton, 2000. (selected poetry) 
Martínez, Elizabeth. De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. 
London: Verso, 2017. 
Mootz, Kaylee Jangula. “The Body and the Archive in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living 
God.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 31.2 (2020): 263-2. 
Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child. New York: Vintage, 2015. 
Morrison, Toni. Paradise. London: Vintage, 1999. 
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer. “Always Coming Home, in America: Enacting the Romance of 
Community.” In Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press, 2013. 
Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy. London: Vintage, 2009.

Last update: Veselá Pavla, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2026)

OBJECTIVES
Designed as a follow-up to “Literary Minorities,” the course focuses on selected later works of the same authors, specifically Toni Morrison’s Paradise and God Help the Child, Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God as well as a selection of stories, essays and poems by Sandra Cisneros, Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo. (It is not necessary to take “Literary Minorities” to sign up for “Literary Minorities II.”)

SELECTED MATERIAL
Brady, Mary Pat. “The Contrapuntal Geographies of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories.” American Literature 71.1 (1999): 117-150.
Cisneros, Sandra. A House of My Own. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. (selected essays)
Cisneros, Sandra. Loose Woman. New York: Vintage, 1995. (selected poetry)
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. New York: Vintage 1991. (selected stories)
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Without Shame. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. (selected poetry)
Erdrich, Louise. Future Home of the Living God. New York: HarperCollins, 2017.
George, Olakunle. “Alice Walker’s Africa: Globalization and the Province of Fiction.” Comparative Literature 53.4 (2001): 354-372.
Gerund, Katharina. “Transracial Feminist Alliances? Audre Lorde and West German Women.” In Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies, eds. Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Gras, Delphine. “Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” Humanities 5.4 (2016): 1-18.
Harjo, Joy. An American Sunrise. New York: Norton, 2020. (selected poetry)
Harjo, Joy. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. New York: Norton, 2015. (selected poetry)
Lorde, Audre. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. In The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York: Norton, 2000. (selected poetry)
Martínez, Elizabeth. De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century.London: Verso, 2017.
Mootz, Kaylee Jangula. “The Body and the Archive in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 31.2 (2020): 263-2.
Morrison, Toni. God Help the Child. New York: Vintage, 2015.
Morrison, Toni. Paradise. London: Vintage, 1999.
Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer. “Always Coming Home, in America: Enacting the Romance of Community.” In Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy. London: Vintage, 2009.

Last update: Veselá Pavla, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2026)