Huvudgrupp 1

8-10 av nedanstående texter väljs av undervisande lärare.

• Angelou, Maya, I know why the caged bird sings, 32. pr., New York, Bantam, 1971, pr. 1988
• Antin, Mary, The promised land, London, Heinemann, 1912
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a native son., [New ed.], reiss., London, Corgi, 1969
• Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango Street., New York, Vintage, 1991
• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Dikter i urval
• Franklin, Benjamin, The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. ...: Originally written by himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes ... by M. M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c.&c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet, ..., London, printed for J. Parsons, 1793
• Hoffman, Eva, Lost in translation: a life in a new language, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books, 1990
• Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995
• Kincaid, Jamaica, Lucy., 1. ed., New York, Farrar, 1990
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts., London, Lane, 1977
• Mailer, Norman, Advertisements for myself, New York, Putnam, 1959
• Plath, Sylvia, The bell jar, London, Faber and Faber, 2005
• Rich, Adrienne, Dikter i urval
• Roth, Henry, Call it sleep., New York, Avon, 1964
• Rowlandson, Mary White, The narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Said, Edward W., Out of place: a memoir, [New ed.], London, Granta, 2000
• Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990
• Thoreau, Henry David; Cramer, Jeffrey S., Waldenb a fully annotated edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, c2004
• Whitman, Walt, Dikter i urval
• Gaines, Ernest J., The autobiography of miss Jane Pittman, New York, Bantam, 1981
• Hemingway, Ernest, In our time: stories., New York, Scribner, 1958
• Wolff, Tobias, This boy's life, London, Picador, 1990
• Burroughs, Stephen, Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.: [Two lines of verse] Copy right secured., [Hanover], Printed at Hanover, Newhampshire by Benjamin True, MDCCXCVIII. [1798] (Utdrag.)
• Eggers, Dave, What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2007

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