Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century
Item
Title
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century
This edition
"Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century" . Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Pantheon, 1991. xi+385 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations
• Repr. New York: Pantheon, 1998.
Table of contents
Fannie Barrier Williams -- Marita Bonner -- Zora Neale Hurston --Richard Wright -- Mary Church Terrell -- Langston Hughes -- J. Saunders Redding -- Margaret Walker -- W.E.B. Dubois -- James Baldwin -- Malcolm X -- Claude Brown -- Eldridge Cleaver -- Maya Angelou -- Angela Davis -- Audre Lorde --Roger Wilkins -- Marita Golden -- Alice Walker -- John Edgar Wideman -- Amiri Baraka -- Kenneth A. McClane -- Brent Staples -- Houston A. Baker, Jr. --Samuel R. Delany -- Bell Hooks -- John Hope Franklin -- Itabari Njeri.
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Commentary on anthology
• "Gates, who was soon to become an autobiographer himself, here collects what he calls 'autobiographical statements' from twenty-eight authors, almost equally divided between men and women. Some of these statements are freestanding essays—Hurston's 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me,' Wright's 'The Ethics of Living Jim Crow,' Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'—others are excerpts from full-length autobiographies by Langston Hughes or Malcolm X or Marita Golden. All exemplify the dual motives of self-definition and racial witness that Gates in his brilliant introduction shows to be characteristic of the genre" (Kinnamon 1997: 480).
Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 480]
Item Number
A0256