new directions in black atlantic fiction
Explore groundbreaking new directions in Black Atlantic fiction with our curated list of Atlantic Black books. Discover innovative narratives and transformative voices shaping contemporary literature.
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Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable …
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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
by Maryse Condé
Blending the fictional with the factual, this highly praised novel ranges from the warm shores of seventeenth-century Barbados to the harsh realities of the slave …
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Crossing the River
by Caryl Phillips
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a …
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The Pagoda
by Patricia Powell
"Mr. Lowe lives the simple and happy life of a contented shopkeeper. A Chinese immigrant to Jamaica in the 1890s, Lowe revels in the verdant …
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The Renunciation
by Edgardo RodrĂguez Juliá
As the final lecture draws to a close, the audience learns that this archetypal mad genius sided with neither the government and church, which gave …
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Oreo
by Fran Ross
Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her …
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Drown
by Junot DĂaz
From the beloved and award-winning author Junot DĂaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, …
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The Activist
by Renee Gladman
Fiction. African American Studies. Straddling fiction and poetry, Renee Gladman's writing operates on the level of the sentence, constructing suprise and oblique meanings at every …
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The Women of Tijucopapo
by Marilene Felinto
A young woman's journey across Brazil to join the revolution. She is Risia who leaves the slums of her industrial hometown and travels to join …
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The Dark Jester
by Wilson Harris
Wilson Harris is one of the truly unique literary talents of the Caribbean. His novel The Dark Jester recounts Pizarro's conquest of Peru in a …
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Salt
by Earl Lovelace
A West Indian novel of "generous, torrential prose"(New York Times Book Review), winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. One hundred years after Emancipation, the …
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The Salt Roads
by Nalo Hopkinson
- The Salt Roads was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53302-5) in 11/03 and received rave reviews. - Nalo Hopkinson made her debut with Brown Girl …
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The Heart of Redness
by Zakes Mda
In a new novel by one of the premier writers of the "new" South Africa, an exile returns from America--where he fled during the apartheid …