The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature / edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett.
Title:
The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature / edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett.
Publication:
Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
Publication Date:
2014
ISBN:
9780470658000
9780470657997
9780470671948
9780470671931
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Volume 1. 1746-1920 -- Volume 2. 1920 to the present.
Volume 1: Editorial Advisory Board -- Preface -- Introduction -- Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents (by Genre) -- Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: Literature to 1830. -- Introduction -- Lucy Terry (c. 1730 -- 1821), "Bars Fight" (1746) -- Briton Hammon (dates unknown), The Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) -- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784), From Poems on Various Subjects (1773): To Mæcenas, To the University of Cambridge, in New England, On Being Brought from Africa to America, On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769, On the Death of the Rev. George Whitefield. 1770, On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age, On Recollection, On Imagination, To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, To S.M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works, A Farewel to America -- Jupiter Hammon (1711- c.1806), An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley, the Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came to Africa at eight years of age, and soon became aquainted 2ith the gospel (1778) -- John Marrant (1755-1791), A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings With John Marrant, a Black (1785) -- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797): From Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, written by himself (1789, 1791), Chapter 1. The Author's account of his country, their manners and customs, &c. Chapter 2. The Author's birth and parentage -- His being kidnapped with his sister -- Horrors of a slave ship, Chapter 3. The Author is carried to Virginia -- Arrives in England -- His wonder at a fall of snow, Chapter 4. A particular account of the celebrated engagement between Admiral Boseawen and Monsieur Le Clue, Chapter 5. Various interesting instances of oppression, cruelty, and extortion, Chapter 10. Some account of the manner of the Author's conversion to the faith of Jesus Christ, Chapter 11. Different transactions of the author's life -- Petition to the Queen -- Conclusion -- David Walker (c.1785-1830): From An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in particular and very expressly, to those of the United States of America (1829), Article 1. Our Wretchedness as a Consequence of Slavery, Article 2. Our Wretchedness as a Consequence of Ignorance -- Part 2. The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830-1865: Introduction -- Omar ibn Said (1770?-1863): Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (1831) -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by himself. (1845), What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) -- William Wells Brown (1814-1884): Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave, eritten by himself. (1847, 1850), The Escape, or a Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (1858) -- Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885): extrat from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852), Chapter 1. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered, Chapter 2. Comparative Conditions of the Colored People of the United States, Chapter 3. American Colonization, Chapter 4. Our Elevation in the United States, Chapter 5. Means of Elevation, Chapter 6. The United States Our Country, Chapter 17. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States, Chapter 23. A Glance at Ourselves, Conclusion -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1825-1900): Our Nig; or, sketches from the life of a free black (1859) -- Harriet Ann Jacobs (c.1813-1897): Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. written by herself (1861) Part 3: The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, and the New Negro: c.1865-1920. -- Introduction -- Frank J. Webb (1828-1894): Two Wolves and a Lamb (1870); Marvin Hayle (1870) -- Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930): Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad: A Musical Drama in Four Acts (1879) -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 -- 1932): "What Is a White Man" (1889) ; The Marrow of Tradition (1901) -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911): From Sketches of Southern Life (1891): Aunt Chloe, The Deliverance, Aunt Chloe's Politics, Learning to Read, Church Building, The Reunion ; Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964): From A Voice from the South (1892): Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906): From Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896): The Poet and His Song, Accountability, Frederick Douglass, A Prayer" "Passion and Love, An Ante-bellum Sermon, Ode to Ethiopia, Whittier, A Banjo Song, To Louise, Alice, After the Quarrel, The Spellin'-Bee, A Negro Love Song, The Colored Soldiers, Nature and Art, When De Co'n Pone's Hot, The Deserted Plantation, We Wear the Mask, Phyllis, When Malindy Sings ; extract from The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904): The Lynching of Jube Benson -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Extract from Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter 14. The Atlanta Exposition Address -- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963): The Souls of Black Folk (1903) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938): The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912/1927) -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Volume 2: Part 1, The literatures of the new Negro renaissance c.1920-1940. Introduction -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960) -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) -- Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Part 2, The literatures of modernism, modernity, and civil rights c.1940-1965. Introduction -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- Ann Petry (1908-1997) James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- Ralph Ellsion (1914-1994) -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) -- Part 3, The literatures of nationalism, militancy, and the black aesthetic c.1965-1975. Introduction -- Amiri Baraka (b.1934) -- Adrienne Kennedy (b.1931) -- Larry Neal (1937-1981) -- Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) -- Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) -- Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) -- June Jordan (1936-2002) -- Part 4, Literatures of the contemporary period: c1975 to the present. Introduction -- Samuel Delaney (b.1942) -- Ntpzake Shange (b.1948) -- Alics Walker (b.1944) -- Andre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Octavia Butler (1947-2006) -- Gloria Naylor (b.1950) -- Toni Morrison (b.1931) -- Rita Dove (b.1952) -- August Wilson (1945-2005) -- Jamaica Kincaid (b.1949) -- Ernest J. Gaines (b.1933) -- Edwidge Danticat (b.1969) -- Walter Mosley (b.1952) -- Percival Everett (b.1956) -- John Edgar idemab (b.1941) -- Harryette Mullen (b.1953) -- Edward P. Jones (b.1950) -- Charles R. Johnson (b.1948) -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
"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 Works hand-in-hand with the Wiley Blackwell Companion to African American Literature, a landmark collection of essays which presents secondary criticism by eminent scholars on many texts and movements featured in the Anthology" -- Provided by publisher.
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