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

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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editorial Advisory Board xv Preface xvi Introduction xxi Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920-1940 1 Introduction 3 Claude McKay (1889-1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 77 Countée Cullen (1903-1946) 125 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 137 Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 164 Helene Johnson (1906-1995) 190 Alain Locke (1885-1954) 197 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 207 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) 219 Dorothy West (1907-1998) 244 Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 251 Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 261 Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 318 Richard ...

List of contents

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

Report

"Gene Andrew Jarrett reintroduces to us voices that we do not often hear in anthologies. Works by Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks, Walter Mosely, and Percival Everett, among others, glow and sing here, and complete the broad mosaic that Professor Jarrett so successfully reconstructs of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature by people of African descent."
--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
 
"With its recognition of the claims and issues of a new millennium, the Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature - in its desire to unsettle traditions, its representation of African American literary diversity, its playful decentering of canonical protocols, and its delight in the ironies of racial expression - may well be called the first postmodern African American literary anthology. For African Americanist scholars and teachers, this anthology is a long-awaited treasure. With its excellent period introductions, headnotes, textual annotations, a glossary and timeline that present the latest scholarship, this anthology responds to the contemporary moment. Along with what the editors calls a "scholarly and pedagogic ecosystem" that connects the print anthology with an entire audio and visual network of scholarship and pedagogy, this anthology is not only responding to, but creating, the contemporary study and teaching of African American literature."
--Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland
"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

Product details

• Authors: G Jarrett, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Gene Andrew (Boston University Jarrett
• Assisted by: Gen Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor), Gene Andrew (Boston University Jarrett (Editor), Jarrett Gene Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2014
• EAN: 9780470671931
• ISBN: 978-0-470-67193-1
• No. of pages: 1120
• Series: Blackwell Anthologies; Blackwell Anthologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative 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