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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"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." ( Native American Encyclopedia , 21 January 2014)
Table of ContentsEditorial 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
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
