This post lists texts that I will summarize in subsequent posts. For the sake of space, I have omitted “classic” works (Le Petit Prince, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal). Here, I focus on texts that marked my perspective but may not be canonical. Because most of my reading has been assigned, the list is small for now.
[American] English
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, 2018; won Women’s Prize for Fiction, graduate from University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
Toni Morrison: Sula, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
August Wilson: Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, The Piano Lesson, Radio Golf
^^^ these works discuss race relations in the U.S. from 1900 through the early 2000s.
French
Fabienne Kanor, Humus (Continents Noirs Gallimard: 2006).
Christiane Taubira, L’esclavage raconté à ma fille ; she is a politician from French Guinea
^^^^ these works relate to race/slavery in the Francophonie