VonTress - Spring 2025 - ENG 215: African American Literature

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Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Ruby Dee (Read by)
Call Number: eAudiobook on Libby App
ISBN: 9780060842765

Video Credit: CrashCourse

Zora Neale Hurston - CrashCourse Black History

Video Credit: CrashCourse

Part 1 Discussion - expect spoilers.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: eBook on Libby App
ISBN: 9780307743992
Publication Date: 2010
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; read by Joe Morton
Call Number: eAudiobook on Libby App
ISBN: 9780307917249
Publication Date: 2010

Video Credit: CrashCourse

This video contains summary and analysis of Invisible Man - expect spoilers.

Ralph Ellison - Biographical Information
from Bloom's Literature.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - PBS
Video and linked resources from PBS - The Great American Read

Ntozake Shange

Interview with Ntozake Shange with Brenda Lyons (1987)
published in the Massachusetts Review (Vol. 28, Issue 4).
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018) - Poetry Foundation
Biographical information & links to poetry
For Colored Girls, Suicide or Struggle by Andrea Benton Rushing
From The Massachusetts Review (Vol. 22, Issue 3). Critical Essay.

[(essay date Autumn 1981) In the following essay, Rushing argues that the portrayal of African-American women in for colored girls is primarily inspired by Shange's own experiences and does not reflect the lives of most black women.]

Video Credit: APB Speakers

Ntozake Shange discusses her work for APB Speakers.

Video Credit: Tony Awards

Black Feminist Collectivity in Ntozake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" by Soyica Diggs Colbert
From The Scholar and Feminist Online.

"S&F Online, a triannual, multimedia, peer-reviewed, online-only journal of feminist theories and women’s movements established in 2003. The journal provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks.
S&F Online is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or the user’s institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access."

Octavia Butler

Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by)
Call Number: eBook on Libby App
ISBN: 9781613128626
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
Graphic novel adaptation
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: eBook on Libby App
ISBN: 9780807083703
Publication Date: 2004
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler; Kim Staunton (Narrated by)
Call Number: eAudiobook on Libby App
ISBN: 9781449876814
Publication Date: 1998-08-27
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Call Number: PS 3552 .U827 K5 2003
ISBN: 9780807083697
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Available at ECC Library - Union
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler; John Jennings (Illustrator); Damian Duffy (Adapted by); Nnedi Okorafor (Introduction by)
Call Number: PN 6727 .D836 K56 2017
ISBN: 9781419709470
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
Available at ECC Library - Union
Graphic Novel adaptation

Kindred by Octavia Butler - Overview
from Bloom's Literature
Octavia Butler - Biographical Information
from Bloom's Literature
Octavia Estelle Butler - Biographical Information
From the National Women's History Museum
Octavia Butler's Official Website
Octavia Butler - World Without Racism - NPR Interview (2001)
From the Literature Resource Center
Octavia Butler Interview (2001) - NPR
From the Literature Resource Center

Video Credit: Storied, PBS

Octavia Butler, The Grand Dame of Science Fiction

Video Credit: Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction

Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider by Audre. Lorde; Robin Eller (Narrated by)
Call Number: eAudiobook on Libby App
ISBN: 9781515925439
Publication Date: 2016-04-26

Dismantling Rage: On Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider by Mahogany L. Browne
Essay from the Academy of American Poets
Dear Sister Outsider: On Audre Lorde and writing oneself into existence by Lavelle Porter
Essay from the Poetry Foundation
Audre Lorde - Biographical Information
from Literature Resource Center
Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Project at Spelman College by Erica Lorraine Williams
from Literature Resource Center
Repetition Is Sacred: School of Our Lorde, Mobile Homecoming, and Legacy in Flight by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
from Literature Resource Center
Audre Lorde: textual authority and the embodied self Citation metadata by Margaret Kissam Morris
from Literature Resource Center

Video Credit: FRANCE 24 English

Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde.

Video Credit: Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!

Audre Lorde reads "Black Studies" live from New York Head Shop and Museum - The Poetry Center

Carol Anderson

White Rage by Carol Anderson
Call Number: eBook on Libby App
ISBN: 9781632864147
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Call Number: E 185.61 .A5438 2016
ISBN: 9781632864123
Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Available at ECC Library - Union

Video Credit: Emory University

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide

Carol Anderson discusses White Rage

Professor Carol Anderson Official Website

ENG 215: African American Literature: VonTress - Spring 2025

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Zora Neale Hurston

Ralph Ellison

Ntozake Shange

Octavia Butler

Audre Lorde

Carol Anderson