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.

Below you will find links to the novels. On the left hand side of the page, you will find links to research sources for each novel (such as biographies and literary analysis).  To find more sources, use the literature databases.

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 (book, hard copy) | An American Marriage -- Audiobook
• Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing (hard copy book) | Sing,Unburied, Sing (Audiobook)

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