LibGuides: Ethnic Studies x Literature: Major Canonical Works

Major Canonical Works at SMC Library

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison; Charles Johnson (Preface by)
Call Number: PS3555 .L625 I5 1994
ISBN: 9780679601395
Publication Date: 1994-06-14
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 R3 1995
ISBN: 9780679601722
Publication Date: 1995-08-22
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by John W. Blassingame (Editor); John R. McKivigan (Editor); Peter P. Hinks (Editor); Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449 .D749 2001
ISBN: 9780300088311
Publication Date: 2001-02-08
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T5 2006
ISBN: 9780060838676
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N25 2014
ISBN: 9780062357250
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
Fences by August Wilson
Call Number: PS3573 .I45677 F4 1986
ISBN: 9780452264014
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
Kindred by Octavia Butler; Gerry Canavan (Editor); Nisi Shawl (Editor)
Call Number: PS3552.U827 A6 2020
ISBN: 9781598536751
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 1983
ISBN: 9780671458539
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Black Boy by Richard Wright; John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by); Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 Z96 2005
ISBN: 9780060834005
Publication Date: 2005-11-29
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z466 1993
ISBN: 9780553279375
Publication Date: 1983-04-01
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 2004
ISBN: 9781400033416
Publication Date: 2004-06-08
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: E185.61 .B195
ISBN: 9780679744726
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Call Number: PS3503 .R7244 A6 1963
ISBN: 9780060909895
Publication Date: 1982-07-01

Other Major Canonical Works

At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9780452267541
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Selected Poems by Claude McKay
ISBN: 9780486408767
Publication Date: 1999-06-30
Oak and Ivy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9781530991747
Publication Date: 2016-04-11
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
ISBN: 9780822219835
Publication Date: 2004-01-01