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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years." "This story, rooted in black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates, boldly and brilliantly, African-American culture and heritage. And in a powerful, mesmerizing narrative,...
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Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature. This title outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.
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Series
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Toni Morrison: a biography looks at the remarkable life of an essential American novelist, whose critically acclaimed, bestselling books offer lively, powerful depictions of black America. Toni Morrison serves as a basic introduction to the literary influences that shaped Morrison's writing, from the early novels to the breakout success of Song of Solomon, from the overwhelming achievement of Beloved: a novel to her most recent book, A Mercy. The...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
17) The Eagle
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Publisher
Greenwood
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of his father and the Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila travels from Rome to solve the mystery, retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, and restore his father's honor.
18) Langston Hughes
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Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Presents a biographical and literary survey of the African-American writer and some of his works.
20) Alice Walker
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of twentieth-century American author Alice Walker, features literary criticism of her work, and includes a chronology of her life, and a bibliography of her writings
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