Readings on Reserve

Here's the list of works that I asked to be put on reserve at Reed Library--a small sampling of some of the most important works on African American literature and culture in general and the Harlem Renaissance in particular. Please be aware that some of them had to be ordered (those without call numbers listed in particular), and may not have arrived yet. Although I will periodically update this list to indicate when newly-ordered books have arrived at the circulation desk, your best bet for the most up-to-date availability results is to check the list in the black book at the circulation desk. You can also go to the Reed Library web site, click on the "Reed's Online Catalog" link, and search for works that don't yet have call numbers listed below.

Literature Anthologies

• William Andrews, ed., Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance PS 647 A35 C57 1994
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature PS508.N3
• Maureen Honey, ed., Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance PS 591 N4 S54 1989x
• Nathan Irvin Huggins, ed., Voices from the Harlem Renaissance PS509.N4 V6
• Marcy Knopf, ed., The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women PS 647 A35 S58 1993
• Venetria Patton and Maureen Honey, eds., Double Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology PS509.N4
• Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, eds., Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950

Literary Criticism

• M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th ed. PN 41 A184 1993
• Michael Awkward, Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels
• Houston Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance PS153.N5
• Bernard Bell, The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition PS153.N5
• Arna Bontemps, ed., The Harlem Renaissance Remembered PS153.N5 .B63
• James DeJongh, Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination PS153.N5
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Figures in Black PS 153 N5 G27 1987
• --, ed., Reading Black, Reading Feminist PS153.N5
• Farah J. Griffin, "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative PS 374 N4 G75 1995
• Nathan Irvin Huggins, Harlem Renaissance NX512.3.N5
• Gloria T. Hull, Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance PS 153 N5 H84 1987
• George Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White PS 153 N5 H86 1995
• Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature PS 153 N5 J66 1991
• Victor Kramer, ed., The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined PS 153 N5 H265 1997
• Sieglinde Lemke, Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
• Rayford Logan, ed., The New Negro Thirty Years Afterward
• Angelynn Mitchell, ed., Within the Circle PS 153 N5 W58 1994
• Ross Murfin and Supriya Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms PN 44 .5 M86 1998
• Michael North, The Dialect of Modernism
• Marjorie Pryse and Hortense Spillers, eds., Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition PS 153 .N5 C63 1985
• Amritjit Singh, et al., eds., The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations PS 153 N5 H264 1989
• Valerie Smith, Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Literature PS 153 N5 S63 1991
• Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance PS153.N5
• --, ed., Changing Our Own Words PS 153 N5 C44 1989
• Mary Helen Washington, Invented Lives PS647.A35 I58 1987

Historical and Cultural Criticism

• Marcellus Blount and George Cunningham, eds., Representing Black Men E 185 .86 R43 1996
• Hazel Carby, Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America CB 235 C37 1999
• Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism ML 3521 D355 1998
• Ann Douglass, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s F 128 .5 D68 1996
• Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act PS 153 .N5 E4
• Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey Tucker, eds., Race Consciousness: African American Studies for the New Century E 185 R 23 1997
• Kevin Gaines, Uplifting the Race E185.86.G35
• Robin D.G. Kelley, Race Rebels E 185.G1 K356 1996
• Bruce Kellner, The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary NX511.N4 H37 1984
• David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue NX511.N4
• Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built E 185 .615 H68 1998
• William Maxwell, New Negro, Old Left: African American Writing and Communism between the Wars PS153.N5 M269 1999
• Mark Anthony Neal, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture ML 3479 N43 1999
• David Roediger, ed., Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White E 185 .G1 B586 1998

ENGL 341: Harlem Renaissance, Spring 2003
Created: 3/3/03 6:15 pm
Last modified: 3/3/03 6:18 pm
Click here for works on reserve for the Introduction to African American Literature course I taught most recently--some not listed here may be useful for this course.