Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature

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Featuring poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism, this is a comprehensive and vital collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. An unparalleled important classic anthology with timeless appeal...

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Overview

Featuring poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism, this is a comprehensive and vital collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. An unparalleled important classic anthology with timeless appeal...

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451527820
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/10/2001
  • Series: Signet Classics Series
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 720
  • Sales rank: 462,554
  • Product dimensions: 4.26 (w) x 6.86 (h) x 1.17 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Fiction

Charles W. Chestnutt
Baxter's Procrustes

Jean Toomer
Karintha Blood-Burning Moon

Rudolph Fisher
Common Meter

Arna Bontemps
A Summer Tragedy

Langston Hughes
Tales of Simple:
Foreword: Who Is Simple?
Feet Live Their Own Life Temptation Bop Census Coffee Break Cracker Prayer Promulgations

Richard Wright
The Man Who Lived Underground

Ann Petry
In Darkness and Confusion

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (Prologue

Frank London Brown
McDougal

Paule Marshall
To Da-duh, In Memoriam

Diane Oliver
Neighbors

II. Autobiography

Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Chapters 1, 6, 7, and 10)

James Weldon Johnson
Along This Way (Selected Episodes)

Richard Wright
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow

J. Saunders Redding
No Day of Triumph (Chapter 1: Sections 1, 5, and 7)

James Baldwin
Autobiographical Notes

Arna Bontemps
Why I Returned

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Chapter 1)

Stnaley Sanders
"I'll Never Escape the Ghetto"

III. Poetry

Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask A Death Song Sympathy A Negro Love Song

W. E. B. Du Bois
The Song of the Smoke A Litany at Atlanta

James Weldon Johnson
The Creation

Fenton Johnson
The Daily Grind The World Is a Mighty Ogre A Negro Peddler's Song The Old Repair Man Rulers The Scarlet Woman Tired Aunt Jane Allen

Claude McKay
Baptism If We Must Die Outcast The Negro's Tragedy America The White City The White House

Jean Toomer
Harvest Song Song of the Son Cotton Song Brown River, Smile

Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel A Song of Praise A Brown Girl Dead From the Dark Tower Incident Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song Three Epitaphs:
For My Grandmother For Paul Laurence Dunbar For a Lady I Know

Melvin B. Tolson
An Ex-Judge at the Bar Dark Symphony Psi

Frank Horne
Kid Stuff Nigger: A Chant for Children

Sterling A. Brown
Sister Lou Memphis Blues Slim in Hell Remembering Nat Turner Southern Road Southern Cop The Young Ones The Ballad of Joe Meek Strong Men

Arna Bontemps
A Note of Humility Gethsemane Southern Mansion My Heart Has Known Its Winter Nocturne at Bethesda A Black Man Talks of Reaping The Day-Breakers

Langston Hughes
Afro-American Fragment As I Grew Older Dream Variations Daybreak in Alabama Dream Boogie Children's Rhymes Theme for English B Harlem Same in Blues Ballad of the Landlord

Frank Marshall Davis
Four Glimpses of Night I Sing No New Songs Robert Whitmore Flowers of Darkness

Richard Wright
Between the World and Me

Robert Hayden
Tour 5
On the Coast of Maine Figure In Light Half Nightmare and Half Vision Market Homage to the Empress of the Blues Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday Middle Passage Frederick Douglass

Owen Dodson
Guitar Black Mother Praying Drunken Lover The Reunion Jonathan's Song Yardbird's Skull Sailors on Leave

Margaret Walker
For My People

Gwendolyn Brooks
The Artist's and Models' Ball The Mother The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon The Children of the Poor We Real Cool The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

Dudley Randall
The Southern Road Legacy: My South Booker T. and W. E. B.
The Idiot

Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Blues and Bitterness

Lance Jeffers
The Night Rains Hot Tar On Listening to the Spirituals Grief Streams Down My Chest The Unknown

Naomi Long Madgett
Native Her Story Race Question

Mari Evans
Coventry Status Symbol The Emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle)
My Man Let Me Pull Your Coat Black Jam for Dr. Negro

Leroi Jones
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note The Invention of Comics Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today The Death of Nick Charles The Bridge

IV. Literary Criticism

W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk (Chapters 1 and 14)

Alain Locke
The New Negro The Negro in American Culture

Richard Wright
How "Bigger" Was Born

Sterling A. Brown
A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature

James Baldwin
Many Thousands Gone

Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959)
1. Arthur P. Davis: Integration and Race Literature
2. J. Saunders Redding: The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots
3. Langston Hughes: Writers: Black and White

Blyden Jackson
The Negro's Image of the Universe as Reflected in His Fiction

John Henrik Clarke
The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature

Richard G. Stern
That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview with Ralph Ellison

Dan Georgakas
James Baldwin...in Conversation

Sterling Stuckey
Frank London Brown

Darwin T. Turner
The Negro Dramatist's Image of the Universe, 1920-1960

George E. Kent
Ethnic Impact in American Literature

Clarence Major
Black Criterion

Bibliography

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