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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

1920 to the Present
Blackwell Anthologies 1. Aufl.

von: Gene Andrew Jarrett
35,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	13.01.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781118559505
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	1120

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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. <ul> <li>Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies</li> <li>Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors</li> <li>Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements</li> <li>Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind</li> <li>This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present</li> </ul> The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be <a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118824776.html">bought as a set</a>, at over 20% savings.

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 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

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“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.” (Native American Encyclopedia, 21 January 2014)

Autorenportrait

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

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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. The first volume explores literature up to 1920 and the second, literature since 1920. The contents result from extensive research on the needs of students and instructors, the cutting-edge developments in scholarship, and the expert guidance of Gene Andrew Jarrett and the diverse and distinguished advisory editors. As a result, the anthology organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements. Volume 1 showcases the special literatures of Africa, the Middle Passage, and slavery in the early national period; of slavery and freedom in the antebellum and Civil War periods; and of Reconstruction and racial uplift in the New Negro period. Volume 2 exhibits the remarkable literatures of the New Negro Renaissance in the modern period; of modernism, modernity, and civil rights; of nationalism, militancy, and the Black Aesthetic; and, finally, of the contemporary period. With the inclusion of extensive pedagogical features, including a preface, volume and period introductions, author headnotes, selected scholarly bibliographies, and textual annotations, the anthology is strategically designed to support students and instructors, and address the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature.

Unpublished endorsement

“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