Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film
10 best books like Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film (Julie Dash): Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Patternmaster, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad., Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope, Praisesong for the Widow, The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library), Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death, The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette, Charlotte Temple & Lucy Temple
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
| Author | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN | 0192829602 |
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...
| Author | Octavia E. Butler |
| ISBN | 0446362816 |
The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition--except one. In the wild,...
| Author | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN | 0140390790 |
I read WIELAND: OR THE TRANSFORMATION for different reasons than I think the majority will read it. I'll bet a lot of people read it because it's a very early example of the "American Novel". Most are probably assigned it for a class. Perhaps some read it because of interest in a particular aspect (religious...
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607066084 |
Picked this up on a whim, just because I've been impressed with Hickman's work in the past....
And I wasn't disappointed. Weird story, funny bits, interesting premise.
I liked it well enough that I bought the rest of the series based on the strength of this single book. That says something...
I'll...
Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1632151944 |
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations...
| Author | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 0452267110 |
Throwing into suitcases all she brought with her on this Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson knows she has to go home. She wonders why she has been dreaming of her childhood, of the months of August spent on a small island with her great-aunt. Were these dreams of the Shout Ring and her great-aunt's stories...
Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne...
Nowhere Men, Vol. 1: Fates Worse Than Death
| Author | Eric Stephenson |
| ISBN | 1607066912 |
"Science is the new Rock ‘N’ Roll!"
So said Dade Ellis, Simon Grimshaw, Emerson Strange, and Thomas Walker at the dawn of a new age of enlightenment that ushered in a boom in scientific advancement. As the research supergroup World Corp., they became the most celebrated scientists of all...
| Author | William Hill Brown |
| ISBN | 0140434682 |
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers...
| Author | Susanna Rowson |
| ISBN | 0140390804 |
This is the first selection in our 19th Cent American Novels class this semester (even though, technically, it's an 18th cen novel), so I'm rereading. It'll be a challenge bc novels of this period are so different from ours---the horizon of expectations, shall we say, might as well exist in a whole other...
| Author | Phillis Wheatley |
| ISBN | 1557092338 |
“Some view our sable race with scornful eye, ‘Their colour is a diabolic dye.’ Remember, Christians... Negros, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.”
This was a for-school-read that I really ended up enjoying. First published in 1770, Phillis Wheatley was...
