Afro-American Literature (ed. Adams, Conn, Slepian)
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Title
Afro-American Literature (ed. Adams, Conn, Slepian)
This edition
"Afro-American Literature" . Comp. William Adams, Peter J. Conn, and Barry Slepian. 4 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 161+246+130+180 pp.
Table of contents
[1] Fiction -- 2. Drama -- 3. Poetry -- 4. Nonfiction.
Volume 1. Fiction : from The street / Ann Petry -- The poker party / William Melvin Kelley -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- from If we must die / Junius Edwards -- God bless America / John Oliver Killens -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Mother dear and daddy / Junius Edwards -- You're being so good, so kind / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The self-solace / Gwendolyn Brooks -- At the Burns-Coopers' -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- On being crazy / W.E.B. DuBois -- Singin Dinah's song / Frank London Brown -- On the road / Langston Hughes -- Klactoveedsetene / Charlie L. Russell -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The beach umbrella / Cyruus Colter.
Volume 2. Drama : A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- A land beyond the river / Loften Mitchell -- Purlie victorious / Ossie Davis.
Volume 3. Poetry -- The new day -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- From the dark tower / Countee Cullen -- The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps -- And what shall you say? / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. -- Status quo / Binga Dismond -- For Edwin R. Embree / Owen Dodson -- Tenebris / Angelina W. Grimke -- In bondage / Claude McKay -- As I grew older / Langston Hughes -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- Portraits in black -- John Henry / Anonymous -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Booker T. and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall -- Medgar Evers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman -- Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis -- When Mahalia sings / Quandra Prettyman -- Crowns and garlands / Langston Hughes -- Black pride -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A dark and sudden beauty / Lance Jeffers -- Red / Countee Cullen -- Dream variation / Langston Hughes -- Motto / Langston Hughes -- Soul / D.L. Graham -- Middle passage / Robert Hayden -- African heritage -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- Heritage / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Jungle taste / Edward S. Silvera -- The African affair / Bruce McM. Wright -- Images of the south -- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- "So quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling A. Brown -- Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps -- Tour 5 / Robert Hayden -- Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden -- Picnic: the liberated / M. Carl Holman -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- The city -- Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks -- John Henry in Harlem / Melvin B. Tolson -- Ballad of the landlord / Langston Hughes -- The train runs late to Harlem / Helene Johnson -- Migration / Carole Gregory -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- This imperfect world -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Freedom train / Langston Hughes -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Award / Ray Durem -- After the eleven o'clock news / Anonymous -- Ironic moods -- A moment please / Paul Vesey -- Children's rhymes / Langston Hughes -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Epitaph: for a lady I know / Countee Cullen -- Sympathy / Ray Durem -- View from the corner / Paul Vesey -- Southern cop / Sterling A. Brown -- Angry voices -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- The white house / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The crazy woman / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Impasse / Langston Hughes -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- To the pale poets / Ray Durem.
Volume 4. Nonfiction – Early Spokesmen: From the life of Frederick Douglas / Frederick Douglas -- Cast down your bucket where you are / Booker T. Washington -- From the autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois / W.E.B. Dubois. Black Identity: Not poor, just black / Dick Gregory -- Mascot / Malcolm X -- From manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- From letters to a black boy / Bob Teague -- The man who went to Chicago / Richard Wright -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The movement / Anee Moody -- A southern tale / James Farmer. New Directions: Negroes have a right to fight back / John Oliver Killens -- Black pawns in a white game / Julius Lester -- Tokenism: 300 years for five cents / LeRoi Jones -- The white race and its heroes / Eldridge Cleaver.
Volume 1. Fiction : from The street / Ann Petry -- The poker party / William Melvin Kelley -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- from If we must die / Junius Edwards -- God bless America / John Oliver Killens -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Mother dear and daddy / Junius Edwards -- You're being so good, so kind / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The self-solace / Gwendolyn Brooks -- At the Burns-Coopers' -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- On being crazy / W.E.B. DuBois -- Singin Dinah's song / Frank London Brown -- On the road / Langston Hughes -- Klactoveedsetene / Charlie L. Russell -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The beach umbrella / Cyruus Colter.
Volume 2. Drama : A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- A land beyond the river / Loften Mitchell -- Purlie victorious / Ossie Davis.
Volume 3. Poetry -- The new day -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- From the dark tower / Countee Cullen -- The day-breakers / Arna Bontemps -- And what shall you say? / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. -- Status quo / Binga Dismond -- For Edwin R. Embree / Owen Dodson -- Tenebris / Angelina W. Grimke -- In bondage / Claude McKay -- As I grew older / Langston Hughes -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- Portraits in black -- John Henry / Anonymous -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- Booker T. and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall -- Medgar Evers / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman -- Robert Whitmore / Frank Marshall Davis -- When Mahalia sings / Quandra Prettyman -- Crowns and garlands / Langston Hughes -- Black pride -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A dark and sudden beauty / Lance Jeffers -- Red / Countee Cullen -- Dream variation / Langston Hughes -- Motto / Langston Hughes -- Soul / D.L. Graham -- Middle passage / Robert Hayden -- African heritage -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Heritage / Countee Cullen -- Heritage / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Jungle taste / Edward S. Silvera -- The African affair / Bruce McM. Wright -- Images of the south -- The slave auction / Frances E.W. Harper -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- "So quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling A. Brown -- Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps -- Tour 5 / Robert Hayden -- Runagate runagate / Robert Hayden -- Picnic: the liberated / M. Carl Holman -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- The city -- Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks -- John Henry in Harlem / Melvin B. Tolson -- Ballad of the landlord / Langston Hughes -- The train runs late to Harlem / Helene Johnson -- Migration / Carole Gregory -- The tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- This imperfect world -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- A black man talks of reaping / Arna Bontemps -- Freedom train / Langston Hughes -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen -- Award / Ray Durem -- After the eleven o'clock news / Anonymous -- Ironic moods -- A moment please / Paul Vesey -- Children's rhymes / Langston Hughes -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Epitaph: for a lady I know / Countee Cullen -- Sympathy / Ray Durem -- View from the corner / Paul Vesey -- Southern cop / Sterling A. Brown -- Angry voices -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- The white house / Claude McKay -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The crazy woman / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Impasse / Langston Hughes -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- To the pale poets / Ray Durem.
Volume 4. Nonfiction – Early Spokesmen: From the life of Frederick Douglas / Frederick Douglas -- Cast down your bucket where you are / Booker T. Washington -- From the autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois / W.E.B. Dubois. Black Identity: Not poor, just black / Dick Gregory -- Mascot / Malcolm X -- From manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- From letters to a black boy / Bob Teague -- The man who went to Chicago / Richard Wright -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The movement / Anee Moody -- A southern tale / James Farmer. New Directions: Negroes have a right to fight back / John Oliver Killens -- Black pawns in a white game / Julius Lester -- Tokenism: 300 years for five cents / LeRoi Jones -- The white race and its heroes / Eldridge Cleaver.
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Cited in
• Kallenbach 1979 (as four separate volumes)
• [Hatch 1991: 183; drama vol. only]
• [Kinnamon 1997: 475; drama volume only] [other volumes: not in Kinnamon 1997]
Item Number
A0107