The Norton anthology of African American literature

Book 1996

An anthology of the works of 120 black writers, spanning two centuries, beginning with Lucy Terry's poem, Bars Fight. The anthology features poems, novels, essays, journals, spirituals, gospel, sermons, jazz--for a total of 2,700 pages.

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ISBN:

9780393040012
0393040011

Description:

xliv, 2665 pages ; 24 cm. + 1 audio compact disc (83 min.)
1.4 m/s

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 2625-2648) and index

Contents:

Vernacular tradition
Spirituals
Gospel
The Blues
Jazz
Rap
Sermons
Folktales
Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865
Reconstruction: 1865-1919
Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960
Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970
Since 1970
Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940: Arthur A. Schomburg
Angelina Weld Grimké
Anne Spencer
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Alain Locke
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Marcus Garvey
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Jean Toomer
George Samuel Schuyler
Rudolph Fisher
Eric Walrond
Marita Bonner
Sterling A. Brown
Gwendollyn B. Bennett
Wallace Thurman
Arna Bontemps
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Helene Johnson
Realism, naturalism, modernism, 1940-1960: Richard Wright
Chester B. Himes
Ann Petry
Robert Hayden
Ralph Ellison
Margaret Walker
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Baldwin
Bob Kaufman
Lorraine Hansberry
The black arts movement, 1960-1970: Mari Evans
Hoyt Fuller
Malcolm X
John Alfred Williams
Martin Luther King Jr.
Etheridge Knight
Addison Gayle Jr.
Amiri Baraka
Sonia Sanchez
Ed Bullins
Eldridge Cleaver
A. B. Spellman
Jayne Cortez
Larry Neal-- Maulana Karenga
Haki R. Madhubuti
Nikki Giovanni
James Alan McPherson
Quincy Troupe
Carolyn M. Rodgers
Literature since 1970: Albert Murray
Maya Angelou
Paule Marshall
Adrienne Kennedy
Toni Morrison
Ernest J. Gaines
Audre Lorde
Colleen McElroy
Lucille Clifton
June Jordan
Clarence Major
Leon Forrest
Michael S. Harper
Ishmael Reed
Toni Cade Bambara
Al Young
John Edgar Wideman
Samuel R. Delany
Sherley Anne Williams
Alice Walker
August Wilson
Michelle Cliff
Wanda Coleman
Octavia Butler
Yusef Komunyakaa
Nathaniel Mackey
Charles Johnson
Ntozake Shange
Jamaica Kincaid
David Bradley
Gloria Naylor
Terry McMillan
Rita Dove
Walter Mosley
Essex Hemphill

LCCN:

96035252

Control Number:

65349

Other Authors:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor
McKay, Nellie Y., editor

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