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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2: 1920 to the Present / Edition 1
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- 0470671939
- ISBN-13:
- 9780470671931
- Pub. Date:
- 01/28/2014
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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Overview
- 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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780470671931 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 01/28/2014 |
Series: | Blackwell Anthologies |
Pages: | 1120 |
Product dimensions: | 6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 2.00(d) |
About the Author
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
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 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 1058What People are Saying About This
“Gene Andrew Jarrett reintroduces to us voices that we do not often hear in anthologies. Works by Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks, Walter Mosely, and Percival Everett, among others, glow and sing here, and complete the broad mosaic that Professor Jarrett so successfully reconstructs of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature by people of African descent.” —Nathan L Grant, African American Review "Expansive, instructive, fascinating and surprising, this magnificent anthology is pieced together with superb editorial judgment and offers insights on every page. Here is a rich, many-voiced literary tradition unfolding across the centuries in all its exhilarating diversity and unmatched power. Certain to become seminal and essential, this is a treasure that belongs on all our bookshelves." —Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham
"A deeply and dynamically qualitative engagement with the complex history of African American literary expression, from its broad, interconnecting roots through to its diverse socio-political outlook. As Gene Andrew Jarrett attests, this is not an encyclopedic volume, nor does it intend to be: instead, Jarrett provides the reader with a cogent and memorable seminar in the intellectual history of U.S. Black creative expression. Essential analyses of style, genre, and artistic revolutions are present here, allowing each selection to retain its unique contribution even while locating it within collective movements. For instructors, this anthology will provide even neophytes with a rich, layered, and nuanced understanding of a grand tradition; for scholars and lay readers alike, this anthology offers a new yet grounded take on a literature and a people three centuries old yet always in the making and (re)making." —Michelle M. Wright, Northwestern University
"With its recognition of the claims and issues of a new millennium, the Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature – in its desire to unsettle traditions, its representation of African American literary diversity, its playful decentering of canonical protocols, and its delight in the ironies of racial expression – may well be called the first postmodern African American literary anthology. For African Americanist scholars and teachers, this anthology is a long-awaited treasure. With its excellent period introductions, headnotes, textual annotations, a glossary and timeline that present the latest scholarship, this anthology responds to the contemporary moment. Along with what the editors calls a “scholarly and pedagogic ecosystem” that connects the print anthology with an entire audio and visual network of scholarship and pedagogy, this anthology is not only responding to, but creating, the contemporary study and teaching of African American literature." —Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland "The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a welcome new intervention, full of strikingly fresh choices and featuring as many works in their entirety, and as many longer selections of major works, as possible. These volumes will help recast the vast range of U.S. black writing for a generation to come." —Eric Lott, University of Virginia