Anthologies of African American Writing

Afro-American Writing Today: An Anniversary Issue of the Southern Review

"Afro-American Writing Today: An Anniversary Issue of the Southern Review" . Ed. James Olney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989. vii+290 pp.

An interview with Josephine Baker and James Baldwin / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- An interview with Ishmael Reed / Mel Watkins -- Black folk / Roland L. Freeman -- Surfiction / John E. Wideman -- Blues for my father, my mother, and me / Richard Perry -- Second-hand man / Rita Dove -- The best teacher in Georgia / John McCluskey, Jr. -- Louisiana shade / Kathy Elaine Anderson -- Looking behind Cane / David Bradley -- The origins of poetry in Langston Hughes / Arnold Rampersad -- Patches : quilts and community in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" / Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Charlotte Pierce-Baker -- The quest for and discovery of identity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Valerie Smith -- The quarters : Ernest Gaines and the sense of place / Charles H. Rowell -- The rules of magic : Hemingway as Ellison's "ancestor" / Robert G. O'Meally -- Mother, sister, wife : a dramatic perspective / Anthony Barthelemy -- Black writing as immanent humanism / Clyde Taylor -- WHY'S/WISE ; Courageousness ; I investigate the sun / Amiri Baraka -- Polls ; Obscurity ; Engagements ; Sugarloaf ; Bandstand ; My book on Trane / Michael S. Harper -- Atlantic Window / Cyrus Cassells -- Mama's promise ; I send Mama home ; The century quilt / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- My Mississippi spring ; Black paramour ; Birmingham 1963 / Margaret Walker -- "In these houses of swift easy women" The bone step-women ; The wastrel-woman poem ; Devices of icons / Brenda Marie Osbey -- Grandpa Paul ; Window / Charles H. Rowell -- Paradise revisited ; A new nephilim ; A tin roof song / Michael S. Weaver -- After prayers at twilight ; Winter gardens ; Mother's tour ; Altitudes / Melvin Dixon -- La chapelle. 92nd division. Ted. ; The gorge ; Fifth grade autobiography ; Dog days, Jerusalem / Rita Dove -- My mother's mother's house ; Socializing : roots : or when my wife surprised the dinner party with talk of her youth ; Carolina, Coltrane, and love ; Sr/Sd : for an African Chronicle ; Double south spring ; Prodigal / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Two poems for Gordon ; Old photo from a family album : 1915 / Pinkie Gordon Lane -- The adoration of fire / Jay Wright.

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