Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackliterature, aggregated by home.social.
The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu released in 2009 narrated by the Black Woman Aminatta Forna
Africa's storytellers, guardians of its history, have had their oral traditions dismissed as mere song
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#film #mali #africa #blackhistory #blackliterature #french #blackwomen #blackmastodon
Good Dirt: A Novel
"Sometimes the only way forward is to look back"
Sale: $30 to $2.99
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Rating: 4.3/5 (5,033 Reviews)
#Historical #Fiction #Family #Legacy #Mystery #BlackLiterature #BookSky #Books
Good Dirt: A Novel
Our Stories Are Our Power
Week 2 of "My Tribute To Black History Giants" series is live! This week, I have driven into the world of the Truth-Tellers. I'm talking about the giants like James Baldwin and Ida B. Wells - those that used the pen to shift the world's conscience and give us the vocabulary for our own resilience. Check out my new blog post at chrisokeynnokwam.com and let me know: What book or essay changed your life? #BHM2026 #TruthTellers #BlackLiterature…
https://chrisokeynnokwam.com/2026/02/10/our-stories-are-our-power/
Zora Neale Hurston in rare underground spanking film, 1931.
#nsfw #film #cinema #blackandwhite #vintageporn #aiart #eroticart #aiporn #aiphotography #aivideo #erotic #ass #kink #spank #spanking #classicmovies #fetish #bdsm #nsfwart #blackmastodon #blackliterature #blackauthor #blackauthors #africanamerican #africanamericanart
Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vintage International) Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition
“It was becoming a habit—this concentration on things behind him”
Sale: $17 to $1.99
by Toni Morrison
Rating: 4.6/5 (5,724 Reviews)
#LiteraryFiction #BlackLiterature #ComingOfAge #ToniMorrison #Books #BookSky
Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vint...
Book Review: Silent Judgement by Zaire Crown
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Subscribe#BlackLiterature #BookReview #crimeNovel #deafRepresentation #grittyNovels #SilentJudgment #streetLit #thriller #urbanFiction #ZaireCrown
"A Black Philadelphia Reader", edited by Louis J. Parascandola traces texts by famous #BlackWriters as well as lesser-known #BlackVoices of #fiction & #nonfiction & #poetry & prose to draw a portrait of historic #Philadelphia
#AmericanHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanLiterature #BlackLiterature
Today we celebrate Blackness in literature with 2 new additions to our collection, on the subject of Black Futures & #Afrofuturism!
This anthology's 21 plays by 21 #BlackWriters were commissioned by Obsidian Theatre (Toronto, #Canada) in 2021
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 -
Morrison's tangled examination of violence, misogyny, race purity, and myth-building is at once hyperlocal and expansively human, revealing at our hearts a terrifying mass of uncertainties.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #tonimorrison #paradise #womensliterature #blackliterature #historicalfictionlovers
Yesterday I was talking about my longing for scifi books that don't take nation-states (or planet-states?) for granted as the default for political organization. Then, completely randomly (literally, by putting my library search results sorting on "random"), I started reading "Sweep of Stars" by Maurice Broaddus. I'm not sure what kind of political organization his characters are living under yet but it's definitely not the typical capitalist liberal quasi-democracy; it appears heavily influenced by West African cultural forms. The opening chapter is about a young person having her adult naming ceremony while wearing green/black/gold kente cloth and in the second chapter we meet an elderly griot who is also an ambassador to Old Earth (O.E. or "Oy!" as they sometimes call it). I'm delightfully surprised. What serendipity!
#Books #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SFF #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #AfroFuturism #BlackLiterature #BlackFiction
How Black #Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literature
#libraries #library #blackmastodon #BlackLiterature
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/arts/harlem-renaissance-librarians-libraries-books-literature.html
#NowReReading2024 ERASURE by Percival Everett via Faber & Faber imbibed at Mills Coffee #Senju #千住 #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #BlackLiterature
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 -
A call to action, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, a tightly written story that risks not outlasting the problem it addresses.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #angiethomas #thehateyougive #ya #africanamericanliterature #blackliterature #BLM
𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗨 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 -
As much call to action as fiction work, Thomas' book, a current and savvy microcosm of police violence and race, risks only not outlasting the problem it addresses.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #angiethomas #thehateyougive #ya #africanamericanliterature #blackliterature #BLM
#NowReReading2024 CROOK MANIFESTO by Colson Whitehead via @doubledaybooks imbibed at Miyakoshiya Coffee #Ginza #銀座 #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #BlackLiterature
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#NowReading2024 YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN by Alice Walker via The Women's Fiction Press (1985) imbibed at Costa Coffee #Otemachi #大手町 💙📚 #WomensLiterature #BlackLiterature #ShortStories
#NowReading2024 BEGIN AGAIN: JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA & ITS URGENT LESSONS FOR TODAY by Eddie S Glaude Jr via Vintage Books imbibed at Roar Coffee #HigashiGinza #東銀座 #Books #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #BlackLiterature
#NowReReading2024 PARADISE by Toni Morrison via Vintage Books imbibed at Moshi Moshi Coffee #Books #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #Novels #BlackLiterature
Wow, this is an incredible work by Crystal Wilkinson, PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS. I know it's traversing ground that "High on the Hog" and a few other books have already traveled, but the focus is on the African American Appalachian community, and a deeper dive into personal family culture and stories. Intriguing, fabulous stuff. #CrystalWilkinson #PraisesongForKitchenGhosts #food #blackliterature #books
#NowReading2024 TO MAKE NEGRO LITERATURE: WRITING, LITERARY PRACTICE, & AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORSHIP by Elizabeth McHenry via @dukepress brewed with Philz Coffee Philtered Soul Blend
#Books #BlackLiterature #Bookstodon #Literature #BookHistory #BooksMastodon #eBooks
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#NowReading2024 A SMALL PLACE by Jamaica Kincaid via Farrar, Straus & Giroux imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木
#Books #BlackLiterature #Bookstodon #BookMastodon @bookstodon #WomenWriters
And so it begins - #NowReading2024
PASSING by Nella Larsen (1929) via Oshun Publishing imbibed at Yanaka Coffee #Nishiarai #西新井
#Books #Novels #BlackLiterature #HarlemRenaissance #Bookstodon @bookstodon #BookMastodon #BooksMastodon #WomenWriters
A list of books by Black authors published in 2023. Very interested in the Michael Harriot (who should be in the Fediverse), and have been meaning to read the interview with bell hooks for a bit.
#blackliterature #blackauthors
https://www.theroot.com/my-favorite-books-by-black-authors-for-2023-1851062602/slides/19
Jamie Jones Scott thought her return home would be a fresh start. She never expected it to be a murder mystery and a reunion from hell. Can she untangle the web of secrets, mend family ties, and resist the tempting detective who's determined to crack the case—and maybe her heart too? https://amzn.to/40aEP1K #blackliterature #contemporary #fiction #contemporaryfiction #mystery #romanticsuspense #blackfiction #Amazon #ad #CommissionsEarned #DWBrooks
'An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.’ #DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook
#BoekPerWeek 60/52 ★★★☆☆
A love story, a sad one. Am not a fan of the genre myself, but I could appreciate this one. Hurston wrote in the vernacular of her characters, while the backdrop tells of how Black Americans, especially women, struggled to make a living in the 1930s.
#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon
@bookstodon
#Lezen #Read
#Classic #BlackLiterature
I've been trying to find words to convey how blown away I am with Alston Anderson's rediscovered 1959 collection, LOVER MAN, a read as close to perfect as you'll find. It's that good, one of the few works I've subsequently recommended to both colleagues and my parents (rare literary company).
LM is so very dialed into the minutiae of African American experience, even 75 years on, as to induce tiny shards of enlightenment, deep pangs within spot on moments.
https://archive.org/details/pan-african-ideal
The Pan African Ideal in Literatures of the Black World by Kofi Anyidoho
Topics
#Blackliterature, #PanAfricanism, #Africandiasporicliterature, #Africanliterature, #politicsofliterature, #literarystudies, #literarytheory, #literarycriticism
"An Inter-Faculty Lecture delivered at the University of Ghana, Legon on January 21, 1988"
White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this — which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never — the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.
James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
#literature #blackwriters #blackliterature
One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to be free, something more than a bank account.
James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
#literature #blackwriters #blackliterature
There’s a wave of #mermaid #literature that remixes African folklore and connects the transatlantic slave trade to mermaid tales
A literary professor shared 3 works of Black mermaid fiction that deserve attention
