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Literary Nomads
As we move into the new year, Literary Nomads is spooling out a longer Journey (“Season”) 6, a broad exploration of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Give it a listen and discover more about the story than most any source has offered, along with extensive links and applications to the culture it speaks to!
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New Folder of Education Materials Growing Now!
Building from the new blog of reading education materials based on the Literary Nomads discussions, here is also a single folder which gathers these supplements, helpful for teachers, students, and curious readers. Save the link and come back to visit for more: it will grow with the blog!
Access Drive archives and bonus materials:
Steve’s Recommendations
What to find if
You Want Something You May Have Missed in Black Literature
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Robin Coste Lewis
2017
Olio
Tyehimba Jess
2016
Four Hundred Souls: 1619-2019
Keisha N. Blain, Ibram X Kendi
2021
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
1966
Prince of Cats
Ron Wimberly
2012
Poetry/history on the black female body
Poetry/History of early black music & Scott Joplin
Multi-authored black history, year by year
Language, otherness, re-framing
Graphic novel, Shakespeare, Tybalt’s story
Some Classic Recommendations (Get these read!):
- (F) James Baldwin: Go Tell It On The Mountain - Faith, youth, direction
- (NF) Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider - Essays and speeches on feminism/activism
- (F) Octavia Butler: Kindred - Displacement, slave history, allyship
- (F) Toni Morrison: Sula - Friendship, secrets, sacrifices
- (YA) Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give – Race, resistance, media, family
- (F) Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Independence, struggle, heart