My PhD Reading List — For the Exams of Doom

Obviously, I’m in this thing called a PhD program.  In English (not Creative Writing).  And that means I have to take a series of exams (half written component and half oral).  As such, it’s necessary for me to have a reading list of primary and secondary texts (in my case, literature for the primary and theory/history/architecture for the secondary — some English majors do it the other way around).

Before I give you the list, it might be important to tell you want I’m doing.  I am studying the spatial organization of empire in the Caribbean.  In other words, I want to know how empires constructed themselves as physical and social spaces and how that reflects in the literature of Caribbean peoples.  That’s the short version anyway.

Now for the list:
Novels