OE 09 Core Texts

Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
James Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
Immaculee Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Harold Napoleon, Yuuyaraq: The Way of the Human Being (may be downloaded as a free .pdf file)
Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Doug Frank, Stories Along the Sprague (Selections)
James Alison, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Selections)
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body [10th Anniv. Edition]
Courtney Martin, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women
William Stringfellow, Ethic for Christians and other Aliens in a Strange Land
Simone Weil, Simone Weil Reader (Selections)
David James Duncan, River Teeth and My Story as Told by Water (Selections)
Seth Kantner, Ordinary Wolves: A Novel
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries 1941-43 and Letters from Westerbork
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