The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American
Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short
stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays
authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the
present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the
first such anthology to be conceived and published for both
classroom and online education in the new millennium.
* Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of
African American literary studies
* Selects literary texts according to extensive research on
classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of
leading professors
* Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods
of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that
accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political
movements
* Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of
major works than any other anthology of its kind
* This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of
texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the
present
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İçerik tablosu
Editorial Advisory Board xv
Preface xvi
Introduction xxi
Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance:
c.1920-1940 1
Introduction 3
Claude Mc Kay (1889-1948) 7
Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) 58
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 77
Countée Cullen (1903-1946) 125
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 137
Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 164
Helene Johnson (1906-1995) 190
Alain Locke (1885-1954) 197
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 207
George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) 219
Dorothy West (1907-1998) 244
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 251
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 261
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 318
Richard Wright (1908-1960) 332
Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil
Rights: c.1940-1965 385
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 391
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 418
Chester Himes (1909-1984) 426
Ann Petry (1908-1997) 441
James Baldwin (1924-1987) 472
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) 512
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) 599
Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black
Aesthetic: c.1965-1975 607
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613
Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637
Larry Neal (1937-1981) 649
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 661
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) 680
June Jordan (1936-2002) 686
Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the
Present 709
Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715
Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725
Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 761
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) 778
Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808
Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820
Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835
August Wilson (1945-2005) 869
Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922
Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951
Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957
Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999
Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005
Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021
Glossary 1032
Timeline 1040
Name Index 1053
Subject Index 1058
Yazar hakkında
Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department
of English at Boston University. He earned his A.B. in
English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English
from Brown University. Jarrett is the author of Representing the
Race: A New Political History of African American Literature
(2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African
American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of
several volumes and collections of African American literature and
literary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at
Harvard University.
Editorial Advisory Board
Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University
Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University
Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University
Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago
Michele Elam, Stanford University
Philip Gould, Brown University
George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University
Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia
Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
John Stauffer, Harvard University
Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester
Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University
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