Titre : | The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature : v. 2: 1920 to the Present | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Gene Andrew Jarrett, Auteur | Editeur : | USA : Wiley-Blackwell | Année de publication : | 2014 | Collection : | Blackwell Anthologies | Importance : | 1114 p. | Format : | 24.3 x 17.1 x 5 centimetres (1.67 kg) | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-470-67193-1 | Langues : | Anglais | Mots-clés : | American literature--African American authors. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. | Résumé : | 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 The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.
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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 McKay (1889 1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882 1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894 1967) 77 Countee 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. |
The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature : v. 2: 1920 to the Present [texte imprimé] / Gene Andrew Jarrett, Auteur . - USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 . - 1114 p. ; 24.3 x 17.1 x 5 centimetres (1.67 kg). - ( Blackwell Anthologies) . ISBN : 978-0-470-67193-1 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : | American literature--African American authors. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. | Résumé : | 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 The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.
| Note de contenu : | Table of Contents:
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 McKay (1889 1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882 1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894 1967) 77 Countee 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. |
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