Documenting the History of the African American Novel

The following are some of the many books in the University Library at USC on the history and development of the African American novel:

Awkward, Michael. Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS153.N5A94 1989

Bell, Bernard. The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS153.N5B43

Callahan, John. In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in the Twentieth-Century Black Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois P, 1988.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS153.N5C34

Foster, Frances. Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives. Westport: Greenwood, 1979.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS366.A35F6

Harris, Norman. Connecting Times: The Sixties in African-American Fiction. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1988.
Doheny Stacks PS153.N5H27 1988

Kostelanetz, Richard. Politics in the African-American Novel. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
Leavey PS374.P6K67 1991

Singh, Amritjit. The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1976.
Doheny Stacks PS374.N4S5

Strpto, Robert. From Behind the Veil: A Study of African-American Narrative. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991.
Doheny Stacks PS366.A35S7

Walker, Melissa. Down From the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989. New Haven: Yale UP, 1991.
Doheny Stacks; Leavey PS374.N4W35

Watson, Carole. Prologue: The Novels of Black American Women, 1891-1965. Westport: Greenwood, 1985.
Doheny Stacks PS374.N4W37 1985

To find additional books on the subject, use the following subject headings in Homer and the card catalog:

For a more extensive listing of possible subject headings, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), found in all campus libraries. Remember: don't use punctuation in Homer.