In the sections "Politics, Nationalism, and Revolution" and "Soul and Spirit," one finds Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Chancellor Williams's The Destruction of Black Civilization, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letters from a Birmingham Jail, and Marian Wright Edelman's Guide My Feet. Du Bois, Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, and Lorraine Hansberry, among others.
The section called "Community and Identity" celebrates books that explore individual freedom and the collective power of the alienated and marginalized, featuring the works of W. Included in this section are The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the first independently written slave narrative Beloved, Toni Morrison's haunting tale of slavery and its aftermath and Ivan Van Sertima's groundbreaking challenge to European history, They Came Before Columbus. The first section, "Ancestors, Origins, and Memory," explores books that have shaped our views of slavery, oppression, and the African continent as paradise lost. The resulting list of 100 books is an impressive collection of poetry, short fiction, novels, drama, autobiography, and history.ĭivided into six thematic sections -introduced by outstanding young writers like Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Arthur Flowers, and Robert Fleming -the books are excerpted and highlighted with insightful commentary. The editors of QBR have tapped a blue-ribbon panel of leading scholars, historians, authors, and booksellers to reach a consensus on works having the most significant impact across the decades -the books that matter most. QBR: The Black Book Review is the preeminent showcase for the critical review of contemporary African American books and authors.
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Now, capturing the full sweep of writing from the Diaspora-from Africa to the Caribbean to America-Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books celebrates the most influential works in this rich tradition, one of world literature's strongest forces. Read about all of the titles captured in the fascinating volume Charting over 200 years of transition and turmoil, perseverance and triumph, intelligence, horror, and exquisite beauty, black literature rings with a remarkable people's vitality and passion, improvisational spirit and spiritual questing.
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