Black American Literature: Essays

Title: Black American Literature: Essays
This edition: "Black American Literature: Essays" . Ed. Darwin T. Turner. Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1969. x+154 pp.
Table of contents: Letter XI / William Wells Brown -- A letter to Mrs. Stowe / Frederick Douglass -- The Negro race not under a curse / Alexander Crummell -- Negro life in Washington / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Of the passing of the first born of Alexander Crummell / W.E.B. DuBois -- Frederick Douglass / Kelly Miller -- Detroit / James Weldon Johnson -- Fooling our white folks / Langston Hughes -- What the Negro thinks of the South / George S. Schuyler -- American Negro literature / Saunders Redding -- On becoming a writer / Ralph W. Ellison -- The discovery of what it means to be an American / James Baldwin -- The black psyche / John O. Killens -- City of Harlem and Cold, hurt, and sorrow (streets of despair) / LeRoi Jones -- The white race and its heroes / Eldridge Cleaver.
Reviews and notices of anthology: n/a
Commentary on anthology: As the subtitle indicates, a non-fiction focus: "Fifteen essays are included beginning with William Wells Brown and ending with Eldridge Cleaver" (Kinnamon 1997: 478).
Cited in: Kinnamon 1997: 478]
Item Number: A0089