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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...
