Women's studies/African-American Women Writers

Recommended Reading

 * Black, K. What books by African American women writers were acquired by American academic libraries?: A study of institutional legitimation, exclusion, and implicit censorship. Lewiston, NY: Mellen. (2009 - ISBN 978-0-7734-3792-0)

Brown Girl, Brownstones

 * Marshall, Paule Brown Girl, Brownstones, The Feminist Press, New York (1959; IBSN 1-55861-149-5).

A novel about about Barabadian immigrants girls growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Extended reading:

 * Martin Japtok, "Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones: reconciling ethnicity and individualism in African American Review, Summer, 1998


 * Kimberly W. Benston, "Architectural Imagery and Unity in Paule Marshall's 'Brown Girl, Brownstones' " Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 67–70


 * "Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones: Pioneering Change in Literary Study" Conference "honoring Paule Marshall and celebrating the fortieth-anniversary of her seminal work, on Friday, February 12, 1999, at Howard University, Washington, D.C

Beloved

 * Morrison, Toni, Beloved, (1987; ISBN 1-4000-3341-1)

Winner of the Pullitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998. Beloved is a story of slavery, brief freedom, and their lasting psychological presence.

Extended reading:

 * Andrews, William L & McKay, nelley Y. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook oxford University Press, 1999.

Zami

 * Lorde, Audre, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 


 * Lorde, Audre, Sister outsider: essays and speeches', Berkely, California, The Crossing Press. (1984)

Extended reading:

 * Birkle, Carme, Women's Stories of the Looking Glass. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. (1996 - ISBN 3770530837)


 * De Veaux, Alexis, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde. New York and London, W.W. Norton,(2004 - ISBN 0393019543)


 * Hall, Joan Wylie, Conversations with Audre Lorde. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi> (2004 - ISBN 1578066425)


 * Byrd, Rudolph, Cole, Johnnetta Betsch, and Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde New York, Oxford University University Press. (2009 - ISBN 9780195341485)


 * Keating, AnaLouise, Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Temple University Press. (1996 - ISBN 1566394198)

Sassfrass, Cypress, & Indigo

 * Shange, Ntozake Sassfrass, Cypress, & Indigo Picador USA. (1996 (revised) - ISBN 0312140916)


 * Shange, Ntozake For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf: A Choreopoem

Extended Reading

 * Mullen, Harryette, Artistic Expression was Flowing Everywhere: Alison Mills and Ntozake Shange, Black Bohemian Feminists in the 1970s, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Spring 2004, Vol. 4, No. 2, Pages 205-235.


 * Clark, Patricia E, Archiving Epistemologies and the Narrativity of Recepies in Ntozake Shange's Sassfrass, Cypress, & Indigo Callaloo, Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2007, The Johns Hopkins University Press pp. 150-162 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492


 * Lidell, Janice, & Kemp, Yakini Belinda Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida. (1999 - ISBN 0-8130-1728-9)


 * Washington, Teresa N. Our mothers, our powers, our texts: manifestations of Àjé in Africana literature Bloomington IN, Univeristy of Indiana Press. (2005 - ISBN 0-253-34545-6)