African American Studies

1. The Marrow of Tradition

   Charles W. Chesnutt, Werner Sollors

   The Norton Critical Edition of this hugely influential novel gives readers the fullest possible sense of its historical background and critical assessment.More

2. The Conjure Stories

   Charles W. Chesnutt, Robert B. Stepto, Jennifer Rae Greeson

   Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential African American fiction writers.More

3. Cane

   Jean Toomer, Rudolph P. Byrd, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

   Second Edition

   A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, Cane is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.More

4. Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

   Second Edition

   One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.More

5. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950

   Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

   “Remarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world.” —Washington PostMore

6. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

7. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

   Michael K. Honey

   The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.More

8. Passing

   Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan

   Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More

9. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nellie Y. McKay, William L. Andrews, Et Al.

   Second Edition

   Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.More

10. Death and the King's Horseman

    Wole Soyinka, Simon Gikandi

    This Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King's Horseman is the only student edition available in the United States. Based on events that took place in 1946 in the ancient Yoruban city of Oyo, Soyinka's acclaimed and powerful play addresses classic issues of cultural conflict, tragic decision-making, and the psychological mindsets of individuals and groups. The text of the play is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations for the many allusions to traditional Nigerian myth and culture.More

11. Modern African Drama

    Biodun Jeyifo

    The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya.More

12. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith Foster, Nellie Y. McKay

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.More

13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself

    Olaudah Equiano, Werner Sollors

    The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.More