The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Jarrett, Gene Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the website Title page Copyright page Editorial Advisory Board Preface Introduction Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures Acknowledgments Table of Contents (by Genre) Part One: The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance

Introduction Claude McKay (1889–1948)

Whe’ fe Do? Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture America The Tropics in New York Harlem Shadows The White City Africa The Tired Worker If We Must Die Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 23 Chapter 25

Jessie Fauset (1882–1961)

Double Trouble Dark Algiers the White

Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

Extract from Cane Balo Winter on Earth Race Problems in Modern Society

Countée Cullen (1903–1946)

Yet Do I Marvel Tableau Incident Heritage To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* I Have a Rendezvous with Life Four Epitaphs Millennial At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem From the Dark Tower Uncle Jim To Certain Critics

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

Extract from The New Negro Criteria of Negro Art

Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934)

The City of Refuge Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Blades of Steel Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 The Caucasian Storms Harlem Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Helene Johnson (1906–1995)

My Race The Road Magula A Southern Road Bottled Poem Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Summer Matures Invocation Remember Not

Alain Locke (1885–1954)

Extract from The New Negro

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain The Weary Blues Jazzonia Harlem Night Club The Negro Speaks of Rivers Danse Africaine Epilogue Dream Boogie Juke Box Love Song Ballad of the Landlord

George S. Schuyler (1895–1977)

The Negro-Art Hokum Extracts from Black No More; Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933–1940 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Dorothy West (1907–1998)

The Typewriter

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

The Back Room How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Nella Larsen (1891–1964)

Passing

Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)

Odyssey of Big Boy When de Saints Go Ma’ching Home Southern Road Memphis Blues Ma Rainey Tin Roof Blues Cabaret Salutamus To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden

Richard Wright (1908–1960)

Extract from Uncle Tom’s Children Blueprint for Negro Writing How “Bigger” Was Born

Part Two: The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights

Introduction Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)

A Street in Bronzeville Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood The Anniad The Womanhood

Robert Hayden (1913–1980)

Middle Passage The Ballad of Nat Turner

Chester Himes (1909–1984)

A Night of New Roses Da-Da-Dee Tang

Ann Petry (1908–1997)

The Bones of Louella Brown In Darkness and Confusion

James Baldwin (1924–1987)

Extracts from Notes of a Native Son Extract from Going to Meet the Man

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)

Extracts from Invisible Man Extract from Shadow and Act

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)

Willie Loman, Walter Younger, and He Who Must Live Prior Attitudes New Typicality Huge Obstacles Not So Small

Part Three: The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic

Introduction Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

Extract from Home: Social Essays Political Poem Dutchman

Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931)

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Larry Neal (1937–1981)

Extract from Black Fire

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) Brother John Where is My Woman Now: For Billie Holiday Malcolm’s Blues Dirge for Trane American History Deathwatch Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)

Extract from A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)

Extract from Gorilla, My Love

June Jordan (1936–2002)

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. If You Saw a Negro Lady And Who Are You? Toward a Personal Semantics What Would I Do White? No Train of Thought I Celebrate the Sons of Malcolm Last Poem for a Little While On the Black Poet Reading His Poems in the Park On the Black Family Calling on All Silent Minorities No Poem Because Time Is Not a Name Extract from On Call: Political Essays

Part Four: The Literatures of the Contemporary Period

Introduction Samuel Delany (b. 1942)

Extract from Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories

Ntozake Shange (b. 1948)

Extract from for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Extracts from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Extract from The Color Purple

Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

Extracts from Sister Outsider The Black Unicorn Coniagui Women For Assata In Margaret’s Garden Woman But What Can You Teach My Daughter Sister Outsider

Octavia Butler (1947–2006)

Extracts from Kindred

Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)

Extracts from The Women of Brewster Place

Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

Recitatif

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Thomas and Beulah

August Wilson (1945–2005)

Fences

Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)

Extract from Lucy

Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)

Extract from A Lesson Before Dying Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31

Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963)

Extract from The America Play and Other Works

Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)

Extract from Krik? Krak!

Walter Mosley (b. 1952)

Black to The Future Extract from Futureland

Percival Everett (b. 1956)

Extract from Damned If I Do

John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)

Extract from God’s Gym

Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)

All She Wrote The Anthropic Principle Bleeding Hearts Daisy Pearl Denigration Dim Lady Ectopia Exploring the Dark Content Music for Homemade Instruments Natural Anguish Resistance Is Fertile Sleeping with the Dictionary We Are Not Responsible

Edward P. Jones (b. 1950)

Extract from The Known World

Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948)

The End of the Black American Narrative

Glossary Timeline: 1920 to the Present Name Index Subject Index Wiley Blackwell Anthologies

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