An introduction to Black literature in America : from 1746 to the present /
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| Language: | English |
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Cornwells Heights, Pa. :
The Publishers Agency, Inc. under the auspices of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History,
c1976
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| Edition: | Rev. ed |
| Series: | International library of Afro-American life and history
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Table of Contents:
- 1960's. A New Surge in Literature / Allan Morrison
- The Engagement Party / Robert Boles
- Direct Action / Mike Thelwell
- A New Day / Charles Wright
- Sarah / Martin J. Hamer
- Red Bonnet / Lindsay Patterson
- Old Blues Singers Never Die / Clifford Vincent Johnson
- Ruth's Story / Henry Van Dyke
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending / LeRoi Jones
- Games: A One-Act Play / George Houston Bass
- Poetry [by] LeRoi Jones ; Jay Wright ; David Henderson ; Ted Joans ; Mari Evans ; Tom Dent ; G.C. Oden ; Julia Fields ; Calvin C. Hernton
- CRITICAL COMMENTARY. Reclaiming the Lost African Heritage / John Henrik Clarke
- Writers: Black and White / Langston Hughes
- The Negro Writer and His Materials / Loften Mitchell
- The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots / Saunders Redding
- An Interview with Ralph Ellison / Alfred Chester and Vilma Howard
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- INTRODUCTION
- SECTION I. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ( 1746-1799). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson
- A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverence of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man / Briton Hammon
- The Kidnapping and Enslavement of Olaudah Equaino, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Gustavus Vassa
- A Plan of Peace Office for the United States / Benjamin Banneker
- The Conversion of a Young Musician / John Marrant
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 / Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
- Poetry [by] Lucy Terry ; Jupiter Hammon ; Phillis Wheatley
- SECTION II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1899). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson
- Letters from a Man of Color: On a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / James Forten
- A Final Escape from American Slavery / Moses Roper
- A Freeman's Flight from the South / William G. Allen
- The German Invasion / James McCune Smith
- Colored American Patriots / William C. Neil
- Crispus Attacks / William Wells Brown
- The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs / Alexander Crummell
- The Future of the Negro / Frederick Douglass
- A Slave among Slaves / Booker T. Washington
- Clotel in Slavery / William Wells Brown
- The Two Offers / Grances Ellen Watkins Harper
- The Goophered Grapevine / Charels Wadell Chesnutt
- Poetry [by] George Moses Horton ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Albery A. Whitman ; James Edwin Campbell ; Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Spirituals. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep ; Go Tell It on the Mountain ; What You Gonna Name That Pretty Little Baby? ; Steal Away ; God's Gonna Set Dis World on Fire ; I Got a Home in Dat Rock ; No More Auction Block
- SECTION III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1900-1968). Introduction / Lindsay Patterson
- 1900-1919. The Scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Dreams / W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Childhood of an Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson
- Poetry [by] James Weldon Johnson
- Work Songs. Pick a Bale of Cotton ; South Carolina Chain Gang Song ; Good Morning, Captain
- Ballads. De Ballit of de Boll Weevil ; John Henry ; Stackalee
- Blues. Southern Blues ; How Long Blues ; Good Mornin' Blues
- Street Cries. Sweet Potato Man ; Crab Man ; Watermelon Vendor's Cry ; Cala Vendor's Cry ; Oyster Man's Cry
- 1920-1934. The Negro Renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem Writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps
- Esther / Jean Toomer
- The Return / Zora Neale Hurston
- Salvation / Langston Hughes
- Color Problems / Langston Hughes
- Contemporary Negro Poetry: 1914-1936 / Sterling A. Brown
- Poetry [by] Georgia Douglas Johnson ; Anne Spencer ; Claude McKay ; Jean Toomer ; Frank Horne ; Countee Cullen ; Langston Hughes ; Waring Cuney ; Arna Bontemps ; Sterling A. Brown
- 1935-1959. Fate and Bigger Thomas / Richard Wright
- Prologue of an Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
- The Revolt of the Evil Fairies / Ted Poston
- Health Card / Frank Yerby
- The Almost White Boy / Willard Motley
- Son in the Afternoon / John A. Williams
- Barbados / Paule Marshall
- We're the Only Colored People Here / Gwendolyn Brooks
- Malcolm X is Dead / John Oliver Killens
- Journey to Atlanta / James Baldwin
- Poetry [by] Gwendolyn Brooks ; Melvin B. Tolson ; Fenton Johnson ; Gwendolyn B. Bennett ; Margaret Walker ; Margaret Danner ; Robert Hayden ; Samuel Allen
- The Eighteenth Century (1746-1799)
- The Nineteenth Century (1800-1899)
- The Twentieth Century (1900-1968)
- Critical commentary