Afro-American writing : an anthology of prose and poetry /
Collected pieces reveal the concerns and literary development of African American writers.
Други автори: | Long, Richard A., 1927-, Collier, Eugenia W. |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
c1985.
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Издание: | 2nd and enl. ed. |
Предмети: | |
Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Afro-American writing. Online version:: Afro-American writing. |
Съдържание:
- On imagination ; To the University of Cambridge, in New England ; On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley
- An address to Miss Phillis Wheatley / Jupiter Hammon
- Preamble : from Appeal / David Walker
- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet
- To Eliza ; The art of a poet ; Slavery / George Horton
- Escape of Clotel : from Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown
- The right to criticize American institutions ; from My bondage and my freedom ; Nemesis ; Woman suffrage movement ; from Lecture on Haiti / Frederick Douglass
- from Autobiography of a fugitive Negro / Samuel Ward
- The slave auction ; The slave mother ; Bury me in a free land / Frances Harper
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
- Go down Moses
- Joshua fit de battle of Jericho
- Steal away to Jesus
- Roll, Jordan, roll
- Crucifixion
- The attitude of the American mind toward the Negro intellect / Alexander Crummell
- The Negro and the nation : from Black and white / T. Thomas Fortune
- A slave among slaves : from Up from slavery ; Speech at the Atlanta Exposition / Booker T. Washington
- The song of the smoke ; A litany of Atlanta ; Of the sorrow songs : from The souls of black folk ; Crime and lynching ; The souls of white folk : from Darkwater ; The comet : from Darkwater / William E.B. Du Bois
- Why be silent? / William Monroe Trotter
- The goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt
- An antebellum sermon ; We wear the mask ; The poet ; Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes ; The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- An open letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. / Kelly Miller
- The watchers ; Rhapsody ; The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite
- The scarlet woman ; Aunt Jane Allen ; The old repair man / Fenton Johnson
- T'appin
- John Henry
- Bad man ballad
- The remnant : a sermon
- Backwater blues
- Harlem : the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson
- Apropos of Africa ; The Negro spirituals / Alain Locke
- The principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ; An appeal to the conscience of the black race to see itself ; Message from Atlanta prison / Marcus Garvey
- If we must die ; Flame-heart ; Boyhood in Jamaica / Claude McKay
- Song of the son ; Harvest song ; Avey / Jean Toomer
- Young gal's blues ; Song to a Negro wash-woman ; Dream variation ; The doors of life : from Not without laughter ; Simple discusses colleges and color ; Simple and the Rosenwald fund / Langston Hughes
- Nocturne at Bethesda ; from Black thunder / Arna Bontemps
- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston
- Long gone ; Slim in hell ; Southern road ; Strong men ; Sister Lou ; Negro folk expression : spirituals, seculars, ballads, and work songs / Sterling Brown
- Southern song ; Memory ; Childhood ; We have been believers / Margaret Walker Alexander
- Dark symphony ; Zeta : from Harlem gallery / Melvin B. Tolson
- The Negro writer and his relationship to his roots / Saunders Redding
- Middle passage ; Tour 5 ; Veracruz ; The diver / Robert Hayden
- Piano after war ; Mentors ; The mother ; We real cool ; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock ; Life for my child is simple ; Takes time : from In the Mecca ; An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire : from Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks
- from Invisible man ; Brave words for a startling occasion / Ralph Ellison
- The black psyche / John O. Killens
- A letter from the South : from Nobody knows my name ; Beauford Delaney ; The rockpile / James Baldwin
- Dance of the Abakweta ; Visit of the professor of aesthetics ; Gold is the shade Esperanto ; And through the Caribbean Sea / Margaret Danner
- Facing the challenge of a new age / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Dinner at Diop's ; Towards a black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller
- Status symbol ; Black jam for Dr. Negro ; Vive noir! ; The writers ; Conceptuality / Mari Evans
- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; A poem for black hearts ; State/ment / Amiri Baraka
- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall
- But he was cool ; Nigerian unity ; Bloodsmiles ; Mixed sketches / Haki Madhubuti
- A clutch of social science fiction fiction : from The omni-Americans / Albert Murray
- Introduction : from The way of the new world : the black novel in America / Addison Gayle
- from Gather together in my name / Maya Angelou
- from The bluest eye / Toni Morrison
- from Mumbo jumbo / Ishmael Reed
- Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drug N Goods : from The sea birds are still alive / Toni Cade Bambara
- To hell with dying : from In love and trouble / Alice Walker
- Dear John, dear Coltrane ; We assume : on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper ; Photographs : a vision of massacre ; Caves / Michael S. Harper
- Ghost poem #4 ; Rhythm is a groove #2 ; Shine's city / Larry Neal
- Dahomey ; A woman speaks ; Rooming houses are old women / Audre Lorde
- He sees through stone ; The idea of ancestry ; The violent space ; For Langston Hughes / Etheridge Knight
- What happens ; Poem from the Empire State / June Jordan.