Diversity in Classical Literature Notable Afro-American and African Literature
Diversity in Classical Literature
Notable Afro-American and African Literature
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Diversity in Classical Literature
Notable Afro-American and African Literature
A Raisin in.tbe Sun
“Twelve Years a Slave” the book is excellent.
The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt.
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (THE great American novel, imho)
Ernest Gaines—A Lesson Before Dying, A Gathering of Old Men, In My Father’s House and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmann. Anything by James Baldwin.
Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe.
Zora Neale Hurston or Langston Hughes.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Plays of August Wilson
He writes poetry?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Going to Meet the Man” by James Baldwin–stirring dramatic stories! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7742/going-to-meet-the-man-by-james-baldwin/9780679761792/
The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I also really love Kindred by Octavia Butler. And I agree with Don Lawson, above, that Invisible Man is amazing.
Just finished this. Excellent novel
I read that many years ago. Loved it. ?
Adichie Americanah, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a yellow sun,
Everything by Thiong’o, esp petals of blood.
Song of Solomon. Americanah,
Willa Carr’s novels, James Baldwin I just finished , Go Tell it On the Mountain
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
L’Amour, Fantasia
Assia Djebar
The Cairo Triology
Naguib Mahfouz
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Bedouin Poetry from Sinai
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Burgher’s Daughter
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Nadine Gordimer
My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola, Passing by Nella Larsen.
Subject of Passing by N. Larson ?
Published in 1929, so in the wave of Harlem Renaissance, about a woman who meets her high school friend who is light skinned and passing as white while living with her racist white husband.
I noticed the name above, Tutuola, and remembered this is the last name of an Afro American lead detective in the tv series SVU.
@Kathy Oh. Shows and movies often make references. You wouldn’t regret this great authour.
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Cry the Beloved Country