Summer Reading List for Africana Literature
The following is a sampling of many of my favorite Africana authors, novels, and theoretical works. This list of course, is by no means comprehensive, as the variety of compelling works available by writers of the African diaspora is very broad and dynamic. However, the following are among the most noteworthy and influential. The Slave Narrative/Reconstruction Clotel; Or The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember edited by James Mellon When I Was a Slave , edited by Norman R. Yetman Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or My Bondage and My Freedom Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington Narrative of Sojourner Truth Women's Slave Narratives by Annie L. Burton, et al. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from The Civil War to WWII by Douglas A. Blackmon A Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Craft...