Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature Volume 2 - 1920 to the Presen

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 BoardDaphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy 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 second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the presentThe 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. 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 second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the presentThe two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editorial Advisory Board xvPreface xviIntroduction xxiPrinciples of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxvAcknowledgments xxviiPart 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920-1940 1Introduction 3Claude Mc...

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Editorial Advisory Board xvPreface xviIntroduction xxiPrinciples of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxvAcknowledgments xxviiPart 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920-1940 1Introduction 3Claude McKay (1889-1948) 7Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) 58Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 77Countée Cullen (1903-1946) 125W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 137Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 164Helene Johnson (1906-1995) 190Alain Locke (1885-1954) 197Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 207George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) 219Dorothy West (1907-1998) 244Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 251Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 261Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 318Richard Wright (1908-1960) 332Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940-1965 385Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 391Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 418Chester Himes (1909-1984) 426Ann Petry (1908-1997) 441James Baldwin (1924-1987) 472Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) 512Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) 599Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965-1975 607Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637Larry Neal (1937-1981) 649Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 661Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) 680June Jordan (1936-2002) 686Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 761Octavia Butler (1947-2006) 778Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835August Wilson (1945-2005) 869Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021Glossary 1032Timeline 1040Name Index 1053Subject Index 1058

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"The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African AmericanLiterature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories,novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored byAfrican Americans from the eighteenth century until the present.Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first suchanthology to be conceived and published for both classroom andonline education in the new millennium." ( NativeAmerican Encyclopedia , 21 January 2014)

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• Authors: G Jarrett, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Jarrett Gene Andrew
• Assisted by: Gen Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Jarrett Gene Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2014
• EAN: 9780470671948
• ISBN: 978-0-470-67194-8
• No. of pages: 1114
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies; Blackwell Anthologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Ethnic Studies, Literature, USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, American Literature, Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke, 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature