UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION READING LIST AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

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1 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION READING LIST AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE This list should be regarded as suggestive rather than definitive. Students, in consultation with the members of their committees, should shape and refine the list as their interests and project require. Fiction and Non-Fiction Prose Baldwin, James. Go Tell it On the Mountain Giovanni s Room Another Country Selections from The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-fiction, Bambara, Toni Cade. The Salt Eaters Brooks, Gwendolyn. Maud Martha Brown, Williams Wells. Clotel, or The President s Daughter Butler, Octavia. Kindred Parable of the Sower Chesnutt, Charles. The Conjure Woman The House Behind the Cedars The Marrow of Tradition Delany, Martin. Blake; or the Huts of America Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave My Bondage and My Freedom Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk Dark Princess Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Sport of the Gods Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man Selections from The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison Fauset, Jessie. Plum Bun Gaines, Ernest. The Sky is Gray A Gathering of Old Men A Lesson Before Dying

2 Griggs, Sutton. Imperium in Imperio The Hindered Hand Harper, Francis Ellen Watkins. Iola Leroy Himes, Chester. If He Hollers Let Him Go Hopkins, Pauline. Contending Forces Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God Mules and Men Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Johnson, James Weldon. Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Jones, Gayl. Corregidora Larsen, Nella. Quicksand. 1928; Passing Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider Malcolm X and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem Morrison, Toni. Sula Song of Solomon Beloved Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones Naylor, Gloria. Linden Hills Mama Day Reed, Ishmael. Flight to Canada Stewart, Maria. Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart Toomer, Jean. Cane Thurman, Wallace. The Blacker the Berry Infants of the Spring Petry, Ann. The Street Walker, David. 2

3 David Walker s Appeal, in Four Articles Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery Webb, Frank J. The Garies and Their Friends Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases A Red Record Wilson, Harriet. Our Nig Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom s Children. 1938, Native Son Million Black Voices Black Boy Poetry Baraka, Amiri. LeRoi Jones. Selections from Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Selections from Black Magic Brooks, Gwendolyn. Selected Poems Brown, Sterling. Southern Road Cullen, Countee. On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen Dove, Rita. Thomas and Beulah Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life Hayden, Robert. A Ballad of Remembrance Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems Johnson, James Weldon. God s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse As editor, The Book of American Negro Poetry Lorde, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde McKay, Claude. Selected Poems Mullen, Harryette. Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse and Drudge Randall, Dudley. The Black Poets

4 Sanchez, Sonia. Selections from Homegirls and Handgrenades and I ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Wright, Jay. Transfigurations: Collected Poems See also the following anthologies of contemporary African American poetry: Nielsen, Aldon, ed. Every Goodbye Ain t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans Gabbin, Joanne, ed. Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Harper, Michael and Anthony Walton, ed. Every Shut Eye Ain t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans since Drama Baraka, Amiri [LeRoi Jones]. Dutchman Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun Shange, Ntozake. for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Wilson, August. Fences Literary Criticism Andrews, William. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, Awkward, Michael. Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision and Afro-American Women s Novels Baker, Houston. Blues, Ideology and Afro American Literature: A Vernacular Theory Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist Race Men Christian, Barbara. Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, Dubey, Madhu. Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic ducille, Ann. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text and Tradition in Black Women s Fiction Favor, J. Martin. Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance Foster, Frances Smith. Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives Gates, Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the Racial Self Gayle, Addison. The Black Aesthetic The Way of the New World: The Black Novel in America Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

5 Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Who Set You Flowin? The African-American Migration Narrative Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Hooks, Bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation Jackson, Lawrence. The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, McDowell, Deborah. The Changing Same : Black Women s Literature, Criticism and Theory Peterson, Carla. Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North ( ) Reid-Pharr, Robert. Conjugal Union: The Body, the House and the Black American Ross, Marlon. Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Scruggs, Charles. Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel Shockley, Evie. Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry Spillers, Hortense. Black, White and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture Smethurst, James. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s Smith, Valerie. Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative Stepto, Robert. From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative Tate, Claudia. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine s Text at the Turn of the Century Wall, Cheryl. Women of the Harlem Renaissance Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage and Literary Tradition Wallace, Maurice. Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men s Literature and Culture, Warren, Kenneth. What Was African American Literature? Willis, Susan. Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience Additionally, the anthology, African American Literary Theory: A Reader, ed. Winston Napier (2000) collects many key essays by writers and scholars of African American literature and literary criticism from the 1920s to the 1990s. Last Updated December