Author: Henry Louis Gates
Secondary Author: Nellie Y. McKay
ISBN: 9780393040012
A dazzling and comprehensive overview of the African American literary tradition. This landmark anthology includes the work of 120 writers over two centuries, from the earliest known literary work by an African American, Lucy Terry's poem "Bars Fight," to the fiction of the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and the poems of U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. To ground the African American literary tradition in its vernacular roots, the anthology opens with a generous section of blues, gospel, spirituals, jazz, rap, folktales, sermons, prayers, testimonies, and speeches. From there follows a deep and wide selection of writing in all genrespoetry, short fiction, novels, drama, autobiography, journals, and lettersincluding eleven major works in their entirety: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Jean Toomer's Cane, Richard Wright's The Man Who L
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 1997
Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Literary Collections / American / African American, Literary Criticism / American / African American, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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