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Primary texts

Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.

• Attaway, William., Blood on the forge, New York, New York Review Books, 2005Compulsory*
• Bontemps, Arna, Black thunder: Gabriel's revolt: Virginia: 1800, Boston, 1970Compulsory*
• Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!: the corrected text, Vintage international ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990Compulsory*
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Yellow wall-paper, herland, and selected writings, Penguin Classics, 2009Compulsory*
• Doolittle, Hilda, Asphodel, Duke University Press, 1992Compulsory*
• Hurston, Zora Neale; Danticat, Danticat; Gates, Henry Louis Jr, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ny uppl., New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006Compulsory*
• Larsen, Nella, Passing, PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, 2003Compulsory*
• Ridge, Lola, The Ghetto and Other Poems, Book Jungle, 2010Compulsory*
• Smedley, Agnes, Daughter of earth, [New ed.], New York, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, cop. 1987Compulsory*
• Toomer, Jean, Cane, Ww Norton & Co, 2011Compulsory*

Handouts

Selected texts by Lola Ridge, Herbert Read, Paul Laurence Dunbar, WEB Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Alain Locke, and Sui Sin Far.

* Compulsory