Suggestions for a course called Reading Poverty: Literature and Service Book-length Ann Petrey, The Street Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Harriet Wilson, Our Nig Sandra Cisneros, The House on Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Helena Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Jane Adams, 20 Years at Jeanette Walls, The Mary Childer, Welfare Brat Louisa May Alcott, Work Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete William Kennedy, Ironweed Carolyn Chute, Beans of Edith Wharton, Summer or Ethan Frome John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Richard Wright, Native Son Anzia Yezierska, The Bread Givers Tomas Rivera, And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye Sapphire, Push (basis of the movie Precious) Part-Time Indian Agnes Smedley, Daughter of the Earth Edwidge Dandicat, The Farming of Bones Tillie Olson, Yonnandio Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place stories Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” Stories by Tilly Olson Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills” Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A Mary Dodge, “Sunday Afternoon in a Poor House” Meridel Le Sueur, “Women Are Hungry,” “Annunciation” Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks Philip Levine Visual representations of the poor Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Shelby Lee Adam, Appalachian Lives |