Bibliograph

The Norton Anthology of African American literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University ; Valerie A. Smith, general editor, Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Professor of English and African American Studies, Princeton University, Volume 2

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The Norton Anthology of African American literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University ; Valerie A. Smith, general editor, Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Professor of English and African American Studies, Princeton University, Volume 2

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsmusicillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Norton Anthology of African American literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

913536609

Responsibility statement

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University ; Valerie A. Smith, general editor, Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Professor of English and African American Studies, Princeton University

Series statement

Norton anthology edition

Summary

Collaborating on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Valerie Smith have compiled what may be the definitive collection of its kind. Organized chronologically, the massive work gathers writings from six periods of black history: slavery and freedom; Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism and Modernism; the Black Arts Movement and the period since the 1970s. The work begins with the vernacular tradition of spirituals, gospel and the blues; continues through work songs, jazz and rap; ranges through sermons and folktales; and embraces letters and journals, poetry, short fiction, novels, autobiography and drama

Table Of Contents

v. 2. Realism, nautralism, modernism to the present. The vernacular tradition, part 2. Gospel ; Songs of social change ; Jazz ; Rhythm and blues ; Hip-hop ; Sermons and prayers -- Realism, naturalism, modernism, 1940-1960. Melvin B. Tolson ; Dorothy West ; Richard Wright ; Chester B. Himes ; Ann Petry ; Alice Childress ; Robert Hayden ; Ralph Ellison ; Margaret Walker ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; James Baldwin ; Bob Kaufman ; Lorraine Hansberry -- The Black arts era, 1960-1975. Mari Evans ; Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) ; John Alfred Williams ; Martin Luther King Jr. ; Raymond Patterson ; Etheridge Knight ; Adrienne Kennedy ; Calvin Hernton ; Audre Lorde ; Henry Dumas ; Amiri Baraka ; Sonia Sanchez ; Ed Bullins ; Eldridge Cleaver ; A.B. Spellman ; June Jordan ; Jayne Cortez ; Larry Neal ; Ishmael Reed ; Michael S. Harper ; Toni Cade Bambara ; Carolyn M. Rodgers ; Haki R. Madhubuti ; David Henderson ; Nikki Giovanni ; James Alan McPherson ; Amus Mor ; James T. Stewart -- The contemporary period. Albert Murray ; Maya Angelou ; Paule Marshall ; Toni Morrison ; Ernest J. Gaines ; Lucille Clifton ; John Edgar Wideman ; Samuel R. Delany ; Sherley Anne Williams ; Alice Walker ; August Wilson ; Octavia Butler ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Nathaniel Mackey ; Charles Johnson ; Ntozake Shange ; Gayl Jones ; Jamaica Kincaid ; Gloria Naylor ; Edward P. Jones ; Rita Dove ; Walter Mosley ; Harryette Mullen ; Essex Hemphill ; Caryl Phillips ; Barack Obama ; Elizabeth Alexander ; Suzan-Lori Parks ; Natasha Trethewey ; Edwidge Danticat ; Colson Whitehead ; Kevin Young ; Tracy K. Smith -- Timeline

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Norton Anthology of African American literature, Volume 2, Realism, naturalism, modernism to the present

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