Wert's ENG 258 Assignment Playbook

For this assignment, you will be asked to choose a novel to read and research. You will use what you find in a research paper project. For more information, such as assignment details, please consult Dr. Wert.

1855-1940

• William Wells Brown:  Clotel, or the President’s Daughter
• Charles Chesnutt:  The Marrow of Tradition
• Zora Neale Hurston: 
  • Jonah’s Gourd Vine
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Claude McKay:  Home to Harlem
• Nella Larsen:  Quicksand
• Arna Bontemps:  Black Thunder

1940’s-60’s  

• Richard Wright:  Native Son
• Margaret Walker:  Jubilee
• James Baldwin: 
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Ralph Ellison:  Invisible Man

1970’s-Present

• Alice Walker: 
  • The Color Purple
  • The Third Life of Grange Copeland
• Ernest Gaines:  A Lesson Before Dying
• Albert Murray:  Train Whistle Guitar
• Maya Angelou:  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Edward P. Jones: The Known World
• John Edgar Wideman: Philadelphia Fire
• Toni Morrison: 
  • Beloved
  • Bluest Eye
  • Sula
  • Song of Solomon
• Gloria Naylor:  The Women of Brewster Place
• Charles Johnson:  Middle Passage
• Tayari Jones:  An American Marriage
• Jesmyn Ward:  Sing, Unburied, Sing