African African Literature Orals List, 2019-2020
Slave Narratives
Equiano, The Interesting Narrative in the Life of Oladuh Equiano
Miguel Barnet, Autobiography of a Runaway Slave (Cuba)
Juan Manzano, Autobiography of Slave (cuba)
Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (Bermuda)
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from The South
W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk
James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Frances Harper, Lola Leroy
Charles Chessnutt, The Conjure Woman and Other Tales
Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood
New Negro/Harlem Renaissance
Jean Toomer, Cane
Alain Locke, The New Negro
Jessie Fauset, Plum Bum
Nella Larson Quicksand
Nella Larson, Passing
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Claude McKay, Home to Harlem
George Schuyler, Black No More
Mid 20th Century
William Attaway, Blood on the Forge
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Anne Petry, The Street
Richard Wright, Native Son
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Paulie Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones
Black Arts Movement
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha
Amiri Baraka, The Dutchman
Ntozanke Shange, For Colored girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets
Recent
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Gayl Jones, Corrigadora
Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid, In a Small Place
Audre Lorde, Zami, A New Spelling of my Name
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose
August Wilson, The Piano LEsson
Albert Murray, Train Whistle Guitar
Alice Walker, Meridian
Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters
Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
Edwidge Danticat, Breath Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
Walter Mosley, The Man in the Basement
Edward Jones, The Known World
Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
Theory and Criticism
Homie Bhabha, The Location of Culture
James Cox, Muting White Noise
Anne Anlin Cheng, Melancholy of Race
George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark
African American Literary Theory: A Reader
Charles Davis and Henry Louis Gates, The Slave’s Narrative
Nathan Huggins, The Harlem Renaissance
David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue
Werner Sollers, Neither Black Nor White, yet Both
Miriam de Costa, Blacks in Hispanic Literature
Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Addison Gayle, The Black Aesthetic
Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood
Martin Favor, Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
Frances Foster, Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women
Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narrative
Who Set You Flowin: The African American Migration Narrative
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection
Deborah McDowell, The Changing Same: Black Women’s Lit, Crit, and Theory
James Smethhurst, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Hortense Spillers, Black White and in Color
Henry Louise Gates, The Signifying Monkey
Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage and Literary Trad
Kevin Warren, What was African American Literature?
Theory Articles
Stuart Hall, “New Ethnicities”
Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak.”
Mark Stein, “Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality.”
Vincent Carretta, “Questioning the Identity of Olaudah Equiano”
Zora Neale Hurston, “Characteristics of Negro Expression”
Richard Wright, “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
Mikhail Baktin, “Carnival and the Carnivalesque”
Brent Hayes Edwards, “The Practice of Diaspora”
Dubois, “Criteria of Negro Art”
Langston Hughes, “The Negro and the Racial Mountain”
Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Stuart Hall, “Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study and Ethnicity”
Toni Cade Bambara, “On the Issue of Roles”