Early African-American Classics
Item
Title
Early African-American Classics
This edition
"Early African-American Classics" . Ed. Anthony Appiah. New York: Bantam, 1990. xiv+574 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. New York: Bantam Classics, 2008. xxvii+670 pp.
Table of contents
Prologue, a selection from The souls of Black folk / by W.E.B. Du Bois -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / by Frederick Douglass -- Selections from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Harriet A. Jacobs -- Selections from Up from slavery / by Booker T. Washington -- Selections from the autobiography of an ex-coloured man / by James Weldon Johnson.
"In his provocative introductory essay, Anthony Appiah explores the roots of African-American literature. He points out that writing itself was an act of rebellion for a population that assumed to be illiterate, and explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, without which these works cannot be fully understood" (publisher's description; WorldCat).
"In his provocative introductory essay, Anthony Appiah explores the roots of African-American literature. He points out that writing itself was an act of rebellion for a population that assumed to be illiterate, and explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, without which these works cannot be fully understood" (publisher's description; WorldCat).
Item Number
A0252