Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection
10 best books like Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection (Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins): Quicksand, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, The Street, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, The Hundred Brothers, Corregidora, The Bondwoman's Narrative
| Author | Nella Larsen |
| ISBN | 0141181273 |
Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable...
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
| Author | James Weldon Johnson |
| ISBN | 0809000326 |
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.
The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured...
| 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...
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0345384202 |
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contemporary American society and its ingrained racism and sexism." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who...
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0395901499 |
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140437487 |
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
| Author | Donald Antrim |
| ISBN | 0679769420 |
There's Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the tropical botanist, who, since returning from the rain forest, has seemed a little screwed up somehow. When...
| Author | Gayl Jones |
| ISBN | 0807063150 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...
| Author | Hannah Crafts |
| ISBN | 0446690295 |
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Through a sequence of fortuitous events detailed in the introduction, noted scholar and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. has discovered what he and others believe may be the first novel written by an African-American woman -- a discovery made even more monumental by the...
| Author | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
| ISBN | 1426460287 |
Being very desirous that one of the race so long distinguished in the cause of freedom for her intellectual worth as Mrs. Harper has had the honor of being should not at this late date in life make a blunder which might detract from her own good name I naturally proposed to await developments before deciding...
