Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago Michele Elam, Stanford University Philip Gould, Brown University George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Werner Sollors, Harvard University John Stauffer, Harvard University Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University Klappentext 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* This first volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the 1920sThe two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editorial Advisory Board x Preface xi Introduction xvi Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xix Acknowledgments xxi Part 1 The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746-1830 1 Introduction 3 Lucy Terry (c.1730-1821) 7 Bars Fight (1746) 8 Briton Hammon (dates unknown) 9 Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) 10 Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) 15 From Poems on Various Subjects (1773) 17 To Maecenas 17 To the University of Cambridge, in New England 18 On Being Brought from Africa to America 19 On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769 20 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 21 On the Death of a Young Lady of...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Advisory Board x
 
Preface xi
 
Introduction xvi
 
Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xix
 
Acknowledgments xxi
 
Part 1 The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746-1830 1
 
Introduction 3
 
Lucy Terry (c.1730-1821) 7
Bars Fight (1746) 8
 
Briton Hammon (dates unknown) 9
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) 10
 
Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) 15
From Poems on Various Subjects (1773) 17
 
To Maecenas 17
 
To the University of Cambridge, in New England 18
 
On Being Brought from Africa to America 19
 
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769 20
 
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 21
 
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age 22
 
On Recollection 23
 
On Imagination 25
 
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
North-America, &c. 26
 
To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 27
 
A Farewell to America to Mrs. S.W. 28
 
Jupiter Hammon (1711-c.1806) 31
 
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1778) 32
 
John Marrant (1755-1791) 35
A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785) 36
 
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) 49
Extracts from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789, 1791) 51
 
Chapter 1. The Author's Account of His Country, Their Manners and Customs, &c. 51
 
Chapter 2. The Author's Birth and Parentage - His Being Kidnapped with His Sister - Horrors of a Slave Ship 60
 
Chapter 3. The Author Is Carried to Virginia - Arrives in England - His Wonder at a Fall of Snow 69
 
Chapter 4. A Particular Account of the Celebrated Engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue 78
 
Chapter 5. Various Interesting Instances of Oppression, Cruelty, and Extortion 89
 
Chapter 10. Some Account of the Manner of the Author's Conversion to the Faith of Jesus Christ 99
 
Chapter 12. Different Transactions of the Author's Life - Petition to the Queen - Conclusion 109
 
David Walker (c.1785-1830) 119
 
Extracts from Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829) 120
 
Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery 120
 
Article 2. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance 127
 
Part 2 The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830-1865 137
 
Introduction 139
 
Omar ibn Said (1770-1864) 143
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (1831) 144
 
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 147
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1845) 149
 
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 210
 
William Wells Brown (1814-1884) 221
 
Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1847, 1850) 223
 
The Escape; or, a Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (1858) 263
 
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) 299
 
Extracts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the
United States (1852) 300
 
Chapter 1. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered 300
 
Chapter 2. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States 301
 

Bericht

"While anthologies, particularly in coverage of periods the most distant from our own, tend to suffer from a difficulty in having individual works maintain conversation with one another, Professor Jarrett's new anthology performs this task with ease. Each example in every genre is carefully chosen; some are new works that have been often discussed, but rarely anthologized. The entirety is a rich presentation of African American literature to the student, a welcoming introduction for the general reader, and a ready resource for scholars."
--Nathan L. Grant, African American Review
"Expansive, instructive, fascinating and surprising, this magnificent anthology is pieced together with superb editorial judgment and offers insights on every page. Here is a rich, many-voiced literary tradition unfolding across the centuries in all its exhilarating diversity and unmatched power. Certain to become seminal and essential, this is a treasure that belongs on all our bookshelves."
--Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham
 
"A deeply and dynamically qualitative engagement with the complex history of African American literary expression, from its broad, interconnecting roots through to its diverse socio-political outlook. As Gene Andrew Jarrett attests, this is not an encyclopedic volume, nor does it intend to be: instead, Jarrett provides the reader with a cogent and memorable seminar in the intellectual history of U.S. Black creative expression. Essential analyses of style, genre, and artistic revolutions are present here, allowing each selection to retain its unique contribution even while locating it within collective movements. For instructors, this anthology will provide even neophytes with a rich, layered, and nuanced understanding of a grand tradition; for scholars and lay readers alike, this anthology offers a new yet grounded take on a literature and a people three centuries old yet always in the making and (re)making."
--Michelle M. Wright, Northwestern University
 
"The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a welcome new intervention, full of strikingly fresh choices and featuring as many works in their entirety, and as many longer selections of major works, as possible. These volumes will help recast the vast range of U.S. black writing for a generation to come."
--Eric Lott, University of Virginia

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gene Andrew Jarrett, Gene Andrew (Boston University Jarrett
• Mitarbeit: Gene Andrew Jarrett (Herausgeber), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Herausgeber), Jarrett Gene Andrew (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.01.2014
• EAN: 9780470657997
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65799-7
• Seiten: 960
• Serie: Blackwell Anthologies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Ethnic Studies, Literature, USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, American Literature, Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke, 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature