Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
8 best books like Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral (Jessie Redmon Fauset): Quicksand, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Brown Girl, Brownstones, The Street, Infants of the Spring, The New Negro, Corregidora, Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted
| 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...
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 | Paule Marshall |
| ISBN | 1558614982 |
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, "Brown Girl, Brownstones" is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother, who wants to "buy house" and educate...
| 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...
| Author | Wallace Thurman |
| ISBN | 1874509611 |
It's 1920s Harlem, and man, the joint is jumpin'. Folks are coming and going and everything's copacetic as long as the gin keeps flowing. This is the scene Stephen Jorgenson dives into when he arrives from Canada for the first time. He is taken to "The Niggerati Manor, " an apartment building in Harlem...
| Author | Alain LeRoy Locke |
| ISBN | 0684838311 |
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.
With stunning works by seminal black voices...
| 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 | 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...
