4 Women Writers: Bibliography

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The Miller Nichols Library includes a number of resources for the study of African-American literature, and for the study of the work of these four authors. Unless otherwise noted, the items below are available in the Miller Nichols Library. Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been selected for display in the current exhibit.

General Works

Davis, Thadious M. and Trudier Harris, eds. Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1985.

* Gates, Henry Louis, ed. Bearing witness : selections from African-American autobiography in the twentieth century. New York : Pantheon Books, c1991.

Glikin, Ronda. Black American women in literature : a bibliography, 1976 through 1987. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1989.

Harris, Trudier, ed. Afro-American writers, 1940-1955. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, c1988.

Harris, Trudier, ed. Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c1986.

Jordan, Casper LeRoy. A bibliographical guide to African- American women writers. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

Roses, Lorraine Elena. Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1990.

Shockley, Ann Allen. Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933 : an anthology and critical guide. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1988.

Smith, Valerie, et al., eds., African American writers. New York : C. Scribner's Sons, c1991.

Maya Angelou

Angelou, Maya. All God's children need traveling shoes. New York : Random House, c1986.

Angelou, Maya. And still I rise. New York : Random House, c1978.

Angelou, Maya. The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou. New York : Random House, c1994.

* Angelou, Maya. Conversations with Maya Angelou, edited by Jeffrey M. Elliot. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1989.

Angelou, Maya. Gather together in my name. New York, Random House [1974].

Angelou, Maya. The heart of a woman. New York : Random House, c1981.

* Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings. New York, Random House [1970, c1969].

* Angelou, Maya. I shall not be moved. New York : Random House, c1990.

Angelou, Maya. Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie; the poetry of Maya Angelou. New York, Random House [1971].

* Angelou, Maya. Miss Calypso [sound recording]. Hollywood, Calif. : Liberty, [1957?] (available in the Marr Sound Archives).

* Angelou, Maya. On the pulse of morning. New York : Random House, 1993 (not available at Miller Nichols).

Angelou, Maya. Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas. New York : Random House, [c1976].

Angelou, Maya. Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. New York : Random House, c1993.

Lupton, Mary Jane. Maya Angelou : a critical companion. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Zora Neale Hurston

Cronin, Gloria L., ed. Critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston. New York : G.K. Hall, c1998.

Davis, Rose Parkman. Zora Neale Hurston : an annotated bibliography and reference guide. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997 (on order).

Hemenway, Robert E. Zora Neale Hurston : a literary biography. Urbana : University of I llinois Press, c1977.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust tracks on a road : an autobiography, 2nd ed. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1984, c1970.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, edited by Cheryl A. Wall. New York : Library of America, c1995.

Hurston, Zora Neale. I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive : a Zora Neale Hurston reader, edited by Alice Walker. Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, 1979.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and men. Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935 (available in the Special Collections Department).

* Hurston, Zora Neale. The sanctified church. New York : Marlow, c1981.

* Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk : three tales, adapted by George C. Wolfe ; music by Chic Street Man. New York : Theatre Communications Group, 1991.

* Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell my horse. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1990 (not available in Miller Nichols).

* Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God; a novel. New York, Negro Universities Press [1969, c1937].

Newson, Adele S. Zora Neale Hurston : a reference guide. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1987.

Ntozake Shange

Black theatre : the making of a movement [videorecording]. San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [1992].

Lester, Neal A. Ntozake Shange : a critical study of the plays. New York : Garland Pub., 1995.

Shange, Ntozake. Betsey Brown : a novel. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1985.

* Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1980, c1977.

* Shange, Ntozake. I live in music, illustrations by Romare Bearden. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997 (not available in Miller Nichols).

* Shange, Ntozake. Liliane: resurrection of the daughter. New York : Saint Martin's Press, 1994.

Shange, Ntozake. Nappy edges. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1978.

* Shange, Ntozake. Ridin' the moon in Texas : word paintings. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1987.

Shange, Ntozake. Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo : a novel. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1982.

Shange, Ntozake. Three pieces. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1981.

Alice Walker

Banks, Erma Davis. Alice Walker, an annotated bibliography 1968-1986. New York : Garland Pub., 1989.

Gates, Henry Louis and K. A. Appiah, eds., Alice Walker : critical perspectives past and present. New York : Amistad : Distributed by Penguin USA, c1993.

* Walker, Alice. The color purple : a novel. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1982.

Walker, Alice. In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983.

Walker, Alice. Living by the word : selected writings, 1973-1987. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1988.

Walker, Alice. Revolutionary petunias & other poems. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1973].

* Walker, Alice. The same river twice : honoring the difficult : a meditation on life, spirit, art, and the making of the film, The color purple, ten years later. New York : Scribner, c1996.

Winchell, Donna Haisty. Alice Walker New York : Twayne Publishers, c1992.

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