The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson.A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar.The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson.The Shadowshaper series by Daniel José Older.The Patternist series by Octavia Butler.Nigerians in Space and its sequel by Deji Bryce Olukotun.Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman by Balogun Ojetade.Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes.The Lilith's Brood trilogy by Octavia Butler.The ' Dead Djinn Universe' Series, by P.Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust.Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.The Bone Street Rumba series by Daniel José Older.The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle.Akata Witch and Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor.The African Immortals series by Tananarive Due.'Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self' by Danielle Evans.Wont Be The Same Fool Twice by April Sinclair.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston.I Wish I Had A Red Dress by Pearl Cleage.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair.Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.The Autobiography Of An Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson.This index includes American authors of African descent only. Some works make use of African American Vernacular English and others employ characters that code switch. They may be influenced by steampunk (sometimes called 'steamfunk') or sword and sorcery (sometimes called 'sword and soul').

They may also feature No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel and Persecution Flip. Speculative Fiction may draw on Afro-Futurist themes, avert Humans Are White and In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race. Notable movements include the Harlem Renaissance and The Black Arts movement. Historical fiction may deal with slavery, Jim Crow, the great migration, the Pan Africanism movement, and the Civil Rights movement. Contemporary fiction may focus on colorism, feminism, the centrality of the church, and urban life.

Themes of racial identity may also take precedence - older works tend to deal with the complexities of passing and modern works tend to deal with assimilation versus keeping one's identity, and class divides within the community. African-Americans have created a rich and diverse literary culture from the time of the slave narrative to today, with its own literary movements and tropes often tackling subjects such as racism, slavery, family, religion, and class.

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