Anthologies of African American Writing

Black Literature in America: A Casebook

"Black Literature in America: A Casebook" . Ed. Raman K. Singh and Peter Fellowes. New York: Crowell, 1970. xii+354 pp.

POETRY: Epigram / Armand Lanusse -- An Indignation Dinner / James D. Corrothers -- Lazy / James Weldon Johnson -- Sympathy / Paul Laurance Dunbar -- The Lynching / Claude McKay -- I, Too, Sing America / Langston Hughes -- Juke Box Love Song / Langston Hughes -- Passing / Langston Hughes -- Trumpert Player: 52nd Street / Langston Hughes -- Sprituals / Langston Hughes -- For a Lady I Know / Countee Cullen -- Incident / Countee Cullen -- Between the World and Me / Richard Wright -- We Have Been Believers / Margaret Walker -- The Birth in a Narrow Room / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Bean Eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Vacant Lot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Langston Hughes / Gwendolyn Brooks -- To Be Dazzled by the Racing of Her Blood / Bruce McM. Wright -- Award / Ray Durem -- The Still Voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Vice / Le Roi Jones -- The New Sheriff / Le Roi Jones -- Notes for a Speech / Le Roi Jones -- Ostriches & Grandmothers! / Le Roi Jones -- Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today / Le Roi Jones -- O White Mistress / Don Johnson -- Downtown-Boy Uptown / David Henderson -- Face of Poverty / Lucy Smith -- Habana / Julian Bond -- FICTION: The Goophered Grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- On Being Crazy / W.E.B. DuBois -- A Summer Tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Thank-You, M'am / Langston Hughes -- Almos' a Man / Richard Wright -- The Almost White Boy / Willard Motley -- Did You Ever Dream Lucky? / Ralph Ellison -- The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / John Henrik Clarke -- Health Card / Frank Yerby -- The Stick Up / John Oliver Killens -- Roy's Wound / James Baldwin -- Navy Black / John A. Williams -- The Sky is Gray / Ernest J. Gaines -- ESSAYS: My Dungeon Shook / James Baldwin -- The Dempsey-Liston Fight / Le Roi Jones -- To All Black Women, From All Black Men / Eldridge Cleaver -- DRAMA: Old Judge Mose Is Dead / Joseph White -- And We Own The Night / Jimmy Garrett – [CRITICISM:] The Harlem of Langston Hughes' Poetry / Arthur P. Davis -- American Negro Literature and the Folk Tradition / Stanley Edgar Hyman -- Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke / Ralph Ellison -- The Alienation of Negro Literature / Charles I. Glicksberg -- Five Writers and Their African Ancestors / Harold R. Isaacs -- The Negro's Negro in Negro Literature / Blyden Jackson -- The Myth of a "Negro Literature" / Le Roi Jones -- from Black on White / David Littlejohn -- The Black Arts Movement / Larry Neal.

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• "This anthology of literature and literary criticism (pp. 201-399 ["sic"]) has a selected bibliography (pp. 349-352) of general studies of black American literature, and works by individual authors . . . Also given are bio-bibliographical notes on the black writers represented in the anthology (pp. 343-348)" (Rowell 1972: 46).

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