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  1. Front Matter
  2. Captivity, Enslavement, Resistance
    1. Olaudah Equiano
    2. Mary Prince
    3. Phillis Wheatley
    4. Jupiter Hammon
    5. Jarena Lee
    6. George Moses Horton
    7. Nat Turner
    8. Frederick Douglass
    9. Sojourner Truth
    10. Solomon Northup
    11. Harriet Jacobs
    12. Harriet E. Wilson
    13. Elizabeth Keckley
    14. Ellen Craft, William Craft
    15. William Wells Brown
    16. Slave Voyages During the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  3. Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance
    1. Charlotte Forten Grimké
    2. Booker T. Washington
    3. W.E.B. Du Bois
    4. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
    5. Charles Waddell Chesnutt
    6. Paul Laurence Dunbar
    7. Alice Dunbar Nelson
    8. James Weldon Johnson
    9. Angelina Weld Grimké
    10. The Reconstruction Era Through Documentary Film
  4. The Harlem Renaissance
    1. Marcus Garvey
    2. Alain Locke
    3. Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
    4. Claude McKay
    5. Countee Cullen
    6. Nella Larsen
    7. Wallace Thurman
    8. Jean Toomer
    9. George Schuyler
    10. Zora Neale Hurston
    11. Langston Hughes
    12. Key Topics Podcast
  5. Urban Realism
    1. Richard Wright
    2. Ann Petry
    3. Ralph Ellison
    4. Robert Hayden
    5. Margaret Walker
    6. Gwendolyn Brooks
    7. James Baldwin
    8. Lorraine Hansberry
    9. Key Topics Podcast
  6. The Black Arts Movement
    1. Martin Luther King Jr.
    2. Malcolm X
    3. Amiri Baraka
    4. Etheridge Knight
    5. Sonia Sanchez
    6. Audre Lorde
    7. June Jordan
    8. Ishmael Reed
    9. Ntozake Shange
    10. Nikki Giovanni
    11. Key Topics Podcast
  7. Late Twentieth Century to the Present
    1. August Wilson
    2. Maya Angelou
    3. Toni Morrison
    4. James Alan McPherson
    5. Colson Whitehead
    6. Ta-Nehisi Coates
    7. Roxane Gay
    8. Mateo Askaripour
    9. Zakiya Dalila Harris
    10. Ariel Felton
    11. Monica West
    12. Camille Acker
    13. Rita Dove
    14. Gregory Pardlo
    15. Tracy K. Smith
    16. Natasha Trethewey
    17. Amanda Gorman
    18. Octavia Butler
    19. Nalo Hopkinson
    20. Tananarive Due
    21. Analyzing Poetry Through Documentary Film

Great Works of African American Literature

Margaret Alma Cox and Patricia Ann West

Made possible through funding from Affordable Learning Georgia and support from the Department of English, Languages, and Cultures at Savannah State University. © 2022. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

About the Editors

Margaret Alma Cox was born in Carriacou, Grenada and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Baruch College, a Master of Arts in English from Brooklyn College, and a PhD in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is an Associate Professor of English/Africana Literature at Savannah State University.​ Her scholarly articles include “Alice Walker and Claudia Rankine: Reclaiming the Ocularity of the Self” (2017) and “Buchi Emecheta: Re-imaging the African Feminine Self” (2010). She also created the documentary, Zora and Janie of Eatonville (2022), which gives multiple perspectives on Zora Neale Hurston and the historic town of Eatonville, Florida, while examining the character Janie of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Patricia Ann West is a 36-year educator, recently Assistant Professor of English at Savannah State University, a Georgia HBCU, from which she graduated in 1976. With a Masters in Secondary English from Georgia Southern University and as a 1991 National Writing Project Fellow, she has genuine concern for using effective reading and writing strategies in literature and composition courses. She focuses research and writing on African-American literature, Gullah-Geechee literature, recovery projects in American literature, and the homegrown fiction of James Alan McPherson and Flannery O’Connor. She has been a certified e-Core instructor since 2014 and was a certified Georgia Educator until June 2020. In 2016, she was named an Outstanding Doctoral Scholar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) where she became a candidate for the Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism. Prof. West has published poetry, articles, and chapters, and presented at workshops and conferences nationally, internationally, and virtually. Her publications include co-editing the custom textbook Collages: A Reader for Composition (Pearson, 2007), book chapters, reviews, journal articles, and local news and commentary for The Savannah Herald. In 2020, she published Still Water Words: Poems and Stories from Ancestral Places (2020) in which she shares her Gullah Geechee heritage.

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