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Larsen, N. (2021) Passing. Chemeketa, OR: Chemeketa Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6519649.
Lee, A.R. (1998) Designs of Blackness: mappings in the literature and culture of Afro-America. London: Pluto Press.
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Smith, V. (1987) Self-discovery and authority in Afro-American narrative. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Toomer, J. (2019) Cane. New York, NY: Clydesdale Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=6005353.
Ward, J.W. (1997) Trouble the water: 250 years of African-American poetry. New York: Mentor.