Subject Guide: Literature

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Study of the African American novel that seeks to answer the question: what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Examines how Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible Man, addresses the social, cultural, political, economic, and racial contradictions of America.

Asserts that the classics can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity.

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and intellectual.

Recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery.

This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman.

Adds Harriet A. Jacobs' brother's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery" to her autobiography of slavery.

Contains entries on 74 authors who were actively writing during the renaissance in 19th-century America.

Analyses of literary texts and historical sources to show how a culture return to peace after a war.

Collection of interviews with notable modern writer, Toni Morrison.

Study of the African American novel that seeks to answer the question: what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Defines postmodernism, compares and contrasts it with modernism, and places it in its historical context, and discusses the major theorists of postmodernism.

Presents the history of the 20th-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices.

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Designed to facilitate a richer understanding of Toni Morrison’s work and promote critical thinking by asking students to investigate issues of whiteness, historiography, critical race theory, and narratology.

Comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.

Explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths.

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Argues that a more accurate picture of Edith Wharton's appreciation of American culture and democracy develops through less engagement with controversial views about native Americans.

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Study of the African American novel that seeks to answer the question: what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged.

Highlights various works by this well-known African-American author.

Examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurston's writing and the reception of her work.

Presents the history of the 20th-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices.