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The Norton anthology of African American literature

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The Second Edition includes nine new writers spanning three centuries: Jupiter Hammon, Venture Smith, Martin Delany, Elizabeth Keckley, Gayl Jones, Caryl Phillips, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, and Harryette Mullen.\Building on the editors’ view that vernacular expression lives in performance, the original Audio Companion CD has been expanded to a two-CD set; Disc 1, Music, includes vocal and instrumental pieces-from ragtime to Motown. Disc 2, Spoken Word, offers 24 speeches, readings, and performances, from Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to Amiri Baraka and Rita Dove.

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The Norton anthology of African American literature

Call No

PS508.N3 N67 2004

Edition

2nd ed.

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Authors

Gates, Henry Louis
McKay, Nellie Y

Subjects

American literature--African American authors.
African Americans--Literary collections.
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swdSchwarze.
swdUSA.
swdAnthologie.

Language

English

Published

New York : W.W. Norton & Co, c2004.

Publication Desc

xlvii, 2776 p. ; 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).

ISBN

0393977781

LCCN

2003066176

Target Audience

Unknown or not specified

Dimensions

24 cm.+

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The Second Edition includes nine new writers spanning three centuries: Jupiter Hammon, Venture Smith, Martin Delany, Elizabeth Keckley, Gayl Jones, Caryl Phillips, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, and Harryette Mullen.\Building on the editors’ view that vernacular expression lives in performance, the original Audio Companion CD has been expanded to a two-CD set; Disc 1, Music, includes vocal and instrumental pieces-from ragtime to Motown. Disc 2, Spoken Word, offers 24 speeches, readings, and performances, from Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois to Amiri Baraka and Rita Dove.

Content Note

Preface to the second edition -- Introduction: Talking books -- The vernacular tradition. Spirituals ; Gospel ; Secular rhymes and songs, ballads, work songs and songs of social change ; The blues ; Jazz ; Rhythm and blues ; Hip hop ; Sermons and prayers ; Folktales -- The literature of slavery and freedom 1746-1865. Jupiter Hammon (1711-1790/1806) ; Venture Smith (1729?-1805) ; Lucy Terry (c.1724-1821) ; Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-1797) ; Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; George Moses Horton (b. 1797?) ; Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) ; Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) ; Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) ; Harriet Jacobs (c.1813-1897) ; William Wells Brown (1814?-1884) ; Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) ; Victor Séjour (1817-1874) ; Elizabeth Keckley (c.1818-1907) ; Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ; James M. Whitfield (1822-1871) ; Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) ; Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) -- Literature of the Reconstruction to the new Negro Renaissance, 1865-1919. Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) ; Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) ; Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) ; Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964) ; Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) ; W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) ; James D. Corrothers (1869-1917) ; James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) ; Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) ; Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) ; Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) ; William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) ; Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) -- Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940. Arthur A. Schomburg (1874-1938) ; Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) ; Anne Spencer (1882-1975) ; Jessie Redmon Fauset (c.1884-1961) ; Alain Locke (1886-1954) ; Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886-1966) ; Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) ; Claude McKay (1889-1948) ; Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) ; Nella Larsen (1893-1964) ; Jean Toomer (1894-1967) ; George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977) ; Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) ; Marita Bonner (1899-1971) ; Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) ; Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) ; Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) ; Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) ; Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ; Countee Cullen (1903-1946) ; Helene Johnson (1907-1995).
Realism, naturalism, modernism, 1940-1960. Melvin B. Tolson (1900?-1966) ; Dorothy West (1907-1998) ; Richard Wright (1908-1960) ; Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) ; Ann Petry (1911-1997) ; Robert Hayden (1913-1982) ; Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) ; Margaret Walker (1915-1998) ; Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) ; James Baldwin (1924-1987) ; Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) ; Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) -- The Blacks arts era, 1960-1975. Mari Evans ; Hoyt Fuller (1923-1981) ; Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925-1965) ; John Alfred Williams (b. 1925) ; Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) ; Etheridge Knight (1931-1985) ; Addison Gayle Jr. (1932-1991) ; Audre Lorde (1934-1992) ; Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) ; Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) ; Ed Bullins (b. 1935) ; Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) ; A.B. Spellman (b. 1935) ; June Jordan (1936-2002) ; Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) ; Jayne Cortez (b. 1936) ; Larry Neal (1937-1981) ; Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) ; Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) ; Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) ; Maulana Karenga (b. 1941) ; Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) ; Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) ; James Alan McPherson (b. 1943) ; Quincy Troupe (b. 1943) ; Carolyn M. Rodgers (b. 1945) -- Literature since 1975. Albert Murray (b. 1916) ; Maya Angelou (b. 1928) ; Paule Marshall (b. 1929) ; Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) ; Toni Morrison (b. 1931) ; Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) ; Clarence Major (b. 1936) ; Leon Forrest (1937-1997) ; John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) ; Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) ; Shirley Anne Williams (1944-1999) ; Alice Walker (b. 1944) ; August Wilson (b. 1945) ; Michelle Cliff (b. 1946) ; Octavia Butler (b. 1947) ; Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) ; Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) ; Charles Johnson (b. 1948) ; Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) ; Gayl Jones (b. 1949) ; Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) ; David Bradley (b. 1950) ; Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) ; Rita Dove (b. 1952) ; Walter Mosley (b. 1952) ; Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) ; Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) ; Caryl Phillips (b. 1958) ; Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) ; Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) -- Timeline: African American literature in context -- Audio companion notes / by Robert G. O'Meally.