{"id":1446474,"date":"2026-01-28T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1446474"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:16:03","slug":"8-classic-novel-retellings-written-by-black-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/8-classic-novel-retellings-written-by-black-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Classic Novel Retellings Written by Black Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/21422classicretellingsMAIN2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/21422classicretellingsMAIN2.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/21422classicretellingsMAIN2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In my own personal opinion, there are not nearly enough retellings of classic novels in which Hamlet is a modern-day theater kid just riddled with teenage angst, or Gatsby is an influencer, or Odysseus can&#8217;t get home because he was using Google Maps and his phone died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plenty of people are currently attempting to right this wrong. The authors on this list are just 8 of them, and they&#8217;re doing it while creating a space within narratives like <em>Frankenstein<\/em> and <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> for Black voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my own personal opinion, there are not nearly enough retellings of classic novels in which Hamlet is a modern-day theater kid just riddled with teenage angst, or Gatsby is an influencer, or Odysseus can&#8217;t   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[25138,628,25220,25017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446474"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446474"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448984,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446474\/revisions\/1448984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}