The Norton anthology of African American literature /
An anthology of the works of 120 black writers, spanning two centuries, beginning with Lucy Terry's poem, Bars Fight. The anthology features poems, novels, essays, journals, spirituals, gospel, sermons, jazz--for a total of 2,700 pages.
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Vernacular tradition
- Spirituals
- Gospel
- The Blues
- Jazz
- Rap
- Sermons
- Folktales
- Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865
- Reconstruction: 1865-1919
- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940
- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960
- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970
- Since 1970
- Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940: Arthur A. Schomburg
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- Anne Spencer
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Alain Locke
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Marcus Garvey
- Claude McKay
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Nella Larsen
- Jean Toomer
- George Samuel Schuyler
- Rudolph Fisher
- Eric Walrond
- Marita Bonner
- Sterling A. Brown
- Gwendollyn B. Bennett
- Wallace Thurman
- Arna Bontemps
- Langston Hughes
- Countee Cullen
- Helene Johnson
- Realism, naturalism, modernism, 1940-1960: Richard Wright
- Chester B. Himes
- Ann Petry
- Robert Hayden
- Ralph Ellison
- Margaret Walker
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- James Baldwin
- Bob Kaufman
- Lorraine Hansberry
- The black arts movement, 1960-1970: Mari Evans
- Hoyt Fuller
- Malcolm X
- John Alfred Williams
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Etheridge Knight
- Addison Gayle Jr.
- Amiri Baraka
- Sonia Sanchez
- Ed Bullins
- Eldridge Cleaver
- A. B. Spellman
- Jayne Cortez
- Larry Neal-- Maulana Karenga
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Nikki Giovanni
- James Alan McPherson
- Quincy Troupe
- Carolyn M. Rodgers
- Literature since 1970: Albert Murray
- Maya Angelou
- Paule Marshall
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Toni Morrison
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Audre Lorde
- Colleen McElroy
- Lucille Clifton
- June Jordan
- Clarence Major
- Leon Forrest
- Michael S. Harper
- Ishmael Reed
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Al Young
- John Edgar Wideman
- Samuel R. Delany
- Sherley Anne Williams
- Alice Walker
- August Wilson
- Michelle Cliff
- Wanda Coleman
- Octavia Butler
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Charles Johnson
- Ntozake Shange
- Jamaica Kincaid
- David Bradley
- Gloria Naylor
- Terry McMillan
- Rita Dove
- Walter Mosley
- Essex Hemphill.