Season 3: Episode 7 | Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Here’s the story of how Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man became a defining midcentury Black novel.
Seasons 3: Episode 6 | Colson Whitehead and Vocabulary
College students at one university have expressed a range of feelings about the many new words that they encounter when reading Colson Whitehead’s novel The Intuitionist.
Season 3: Episode 5 | Paul Beatty and the Booker Prize
Paul Beatty’s novel The Sellout became the first novel by an American to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2016.
Season 3: Episode 4 | Trudier Harris’s Prolific Scholarship on African American Novels
A brief discussion of the prolific scholarship on African American novels by scholar Trudier Harris.
Season 3: Episode 3 | Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929)
The stories behind the reception to Larsen’s novel.
Season 3: Episode 2 | Toni Morrison and Vocabulary
What can we learn about the differences among the eleven novels Toni Morrison published when we consider her word usage?
Season 3: Episode 1 | Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
The multifaceted responses to a novel about a Black woman becoming.
Season 2: Episode 7 | Black Cultural Mythology and Song of Solomon
A fresh conceptual framework emerges that gives us tools to discover unique ways to engage with classic novels, like Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.
Season 2: Episode 6 | Ernest Gaines and Film
A brief narrative about Ernest Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman being adapted into a movie and becoming an instant classic.
Season 2: Episode 5 | Paul Beatty and Vocabulary
Who would’ve thought that a joke-telling novelist would have one of the largest vocabularies in African American literature?