Gardner, Janet, et al. Literature: A Portable Anthology. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016. Print. ISBN 13: 978-1319035341
Bullock, Richard, Michal Brody and Francine Weinberg. The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises. 3rd Ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2016. Print. ISBN 13: 978-0393646399 Please choose one of the novels below as required reading for the class: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Red to the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig Woman at Point Zeroby Nawal El Saadawi’s How Not to Drown in a Glass of Waterby Angie Cruz Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Love Songs of W.E.B. Duboisby Honoree Fanonne Erasure by Percival Everett The Book of Harlan by Bernice McFadden Black Cakeby Charmaine Wilkerson Perfect Peace by Daniel Black Yellowface by R.F. Kuang There, Thereby Tommy Orange So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Graphic Novel: Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese. Square Fish, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0312384487 Not Novels, but texts we might consider excerptingin our courses: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw Stepmotherland by Darrel AlejandroHolnes Punch Me Up ToThe Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York Cityby Shanté Paradigm Smalls If I Survive YouJonathan Escoffery Black, African, and Caribbean LGBT Lit Resource Link (for Excerpting OR for Future Novel Considerations): https://readsrainbow.com/2021/06/in-the-intersection-black-african-and-caribbean-lgbt-lit
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