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Reserve Readings
Here's the list of works that I asked to be put on reserve at Reed Library. Please be aware that some of them had to be ordered, and may not have arrived yet. Check the list at the circulation desk for the most up-to-date availability results.
Literature
- Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade, ed. Philip Curtin
- Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe, ed. Charles Rowell
- Toni Cade Bambara, Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions, ed. Toni Morrison
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (Bedford ed.)
- Arna Bontemps, Black Thunder
- Kamau Braithwaite, The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
- A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader, ed. Frances Smith Foster
- Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English, eds. Mary Condé and Thorunn Lonsdale
- Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777, ed. Thomas Krise
- Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Gustave de Beaumont, Marie, or Slavery in the United States: A Novel of Jacksonian America
- Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
- The Classic Slave Narratives, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Michelle Cliff, Free Enterprise
- Lucille Clifton, Good Woman
- Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
- --, The Last of the African Kings
- Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones
- Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust
- Martin Delany, Blake, or the Huts of America
- --, The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
- Emerson's Antislavery Writings, ed. Joel Myerson
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
- --, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Bedford Series in History and Culture ed.)
- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
- Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
- Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
- Gayl Jones, Corregidora
- George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin
- --, Natives of My Person
- Juan Francisco Manzano, Autobiography of a Slave
- Paule Marshall, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
- --, Daughters
- --, Praisesong for the Widow
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- --, Billy Budd and Other Stories
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Gloria Naylor, Mama Day
- Nine Black Women, ed. Moira Ferguson
- The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, eds. Stewart Brown and John Wickham
- The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader, ed. William L. Andrews
- Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
- Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and William L. Andrews
- Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, ed. Moira Ferguson
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Vincent Caretta
- Derek Walcott, Omeros
- David Walker, Appeal
Literary Criticism
- M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
- William Andrews, To Tell a Free Story
- Joan Baum, Mind-Forg'd Manacles: Slavery and the English Romantic Poets
- Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, Black Women Writers and the Neo-Slave Narrative
- The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature, eds. Werner Sollers and Maria Diedrich
- Black Imagination and the Middle Passage, eds. Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Carl Pedersen
- Russ Castronovo, Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom
- Stelamaris Coser, Bridging the Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
- Critical Terms for Literary Study, eds. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin
- Criticism and the Color Line, ed. Henry Wonham
- J. Michael Dash, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
- The Discourse of Slavery: Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison, ed. Betty Ring
- Madhu Dubey, Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic
- Jennifer Fleischner, Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
- Frances Smith Foster, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives, 2nd ed.
- --, Written by Herself: Literary Production of Early African American Women Writers
- Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays, ed. William L. Andrews
- Ronald A.T. Judy, (Dis)Forming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Canon
- Robert Levine, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
- Kenneth Mostern, Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America
- Ross Murfin and Supriya Ray, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
- Tejumola Olaniyan, Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance
- Venetria Patton, Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction
- Poetics of the Americas, eds. Bainard Cowan and Jefferson Humphries
- Ashraf H.A. Rushdy, Neo-Slave Narratives
- Slavery and the Literary Imagination, eds. Arnold Rampersad and Deborah McDowell
- The Slave's Narrative, eds. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Robert Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
- Subjects and Citizens, eds. Cathy Davidson and Michael Moon
- Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
- Kari Winter, Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865
- Within the Circle, ed. Angelyn Mitchell
Cultural Criticism, History, Political Economy
- The Angela Y. Davis Reader, ed. Joy James
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe, eds. Joseph Inikori and Stanley Engerman
- Roger Bastide, African Civilizations in the New World
- Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
- Black Popular Culture, ed. Gina Dent
- The Black Public Sphere, ed. The Black Public Sphere Collective
- The Black Woman, ed. Toni Cade
- British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: The Legacy of Eric Williams, eds. Barbara Solow and Stanley Engerman
- Hazel Carby, Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America
- Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, eds. Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden
- Comparative American Identities, ed. Hortense Spillers
- Critical Race Theory, eds. Kimberle Crenshaw et al.
- Philip Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
- Dangerous Liaisons, eds. Anne McClintock et al.
- Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America, ed. Elizabeth Donnan (4 v.)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, The Suppression of the Slave Trade to the United States of America
- Moira Ferguson, Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
- Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
- --, Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures
- Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, ed. Joseph Harris
- Joseph E. Holloway, Africanisms in American Culture
- The House That Race Built, ed. Wahneema Lubiano
- Peter Hulme, Caribbean Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797
- C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins
- Herbert Klein, The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade
- D.W. Meinig, Atlantic America, 1492-1800
- Kobena Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies
- Edmund Morgan, American Slavery/American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
- Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another, ed. Ilan Stavans
- Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death
- Race Consciousness: African American Studies for the New Century, eds. Judith Jackson Fossett and Jeffrey Tucker
- Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- Rethinking C.L.R. James, ed. Grant Farred
- Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of a Black Radical Tradition
- Slavery in the Americas, ed. Wolfgang Binder
- Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, eds. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen
- This Bridge Called My Back, eds. Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga
- Vincent Bakpetu Thompson, The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas, 1441-1900
- John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
- Rinaldo Walcott, Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada
- Ronald Walters, Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora
- Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
M A I N * N E W S * L I N K S * R E S E R V E S
EN 514: Comparative Approaches to Literature, Spring 2000
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