African American fictions
Don’t call us death: This is a series of poems that try to imagine the life of black men after death. Danez Smith’s statements take heartbreaking imagery of violence against black men’s bodies (Smith, pg).
Salvage the bones: Ward tells us about surviving life experience as a native of the Mississippi native land. The story tells about a pregnant lady who lived in absolute poverty whose three brothers and a father were alcoholics’ addicts (Ward, pg).
I know why the caged birds sing: This book tells about the life challenges that Maya underwent that ended up shaping her early life. The young life was nomadic; that is, they relocated from one area to another (Maya, pg).
The fire shut up in my bones: Charles here tells us about his life growth as the youngest children among the five brothers. He speaks about how he passed through hard life situations like child rape and poverty (Blow, pg).
Brown girl dreaming: This talks about a girl named Woodson, who was the desire to include the essential highlights that were missing in the community. She lived during the times of the black power movement and the civil rights movement (Woodson, pg).
The warmth of another sun: The book talks about the great migration of African Americans due to Jim Grow Laws and failing sharecropping system. It tells about the hard journey of three individuals as they moved to Chicago (Isabel, pg).
Their eyes were watching God: It talks about the life of the African American that lifted their existence. She learned about love and realization of oneself (Hurston, pg).
The autobiography of Malcolm X: Talks about the author who lived to witness his parents struggling with racialism (Malcolm, pg).
Beloved: Talks about a slave lady who tried to kill her children to evade them from slavery, but they survive the move (Morrison, pg).
Kindred: Talks about the sun of a plantation owner who saved life others during the slave trade period (Butler, pg).
Work cites
Smith, Danez. Don’t Call Us Dead. Random House, 2018.
Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones: A novel. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.
Angelou, Maya. Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings: A casebook. Oxford University Press on Demand, 2016.
Blow, Charles M. Fire shut up in my bones. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown girl dreaming. Penguin, 2016.
Isabel, Wilkerson. “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.” (2017).
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937.” New York: Perennial (1990): 15-16.
Malcolm, X. “The autobiography of Malcolm X.” B146/$1.95, (2019).
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. ProQuest LLC, 2002.
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Beacon Press, 2003.