Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays
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Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays
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"Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays" . Ed. John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward. New York: Meridian, 1992. xiv+608 pp.
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Table of contents
Introduction / John Oliver Killens -- Foreword / Jerry W. Ward Jr. --
Fiction.
From Black thunder / Arna Bontemps -- From Their eyes were watching god / Zora Neale Hurston -- The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright -- Withered skin of berries / Jean Toomer -- From Jubilee / Margaret Walker -- From Sippi / John Oliver Killens -- The lying bee / John Henrik Clarke -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- From Witherspoon / Lance Jeffers -- Return of the spouse / Arthenia B. Millican -- From A short walk / Alice Childress -- Mama Louise grabs her satchel and splits inside Doc John's cabin/his cave / Steve Cannon -- From Ludell and Willie / Brenda Wilkinson -- From South town / Lorenz Graham -- From De mojo blues / Arthur Flowers -- Going home / Carol Dixon -- How many miles to Bethlehem? / Joyce L. Dukes -- Heirs and orphans / Doris Jean Austin -- Miss Julie / Bill Williams Forde -- From This child's gonna live / Sarah Wright --
Poetry.
Spirituals and blues : selections from The negro caravan -- Spirituals -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Steal away -- Deep river -- I been rebuked and I been scorned -- Go down, Moses -- Slavery chain -- No more auction block -- St. Louis blues -- The southern blues -- Backwater blues -- Sister Lou ; Strong men / Sterling A. Brown -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- The ancient rain / Bob Kaufman -- A poem for myself ; Belly song ; Three songs / Etheridge Knight -- Mr. Tut's house / Julia Fields -- Clinton / Sterling D. Plumpp -- Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni -- The governor of Ollie Street ; By the 5th generation / Ahmos Zu-Bolton -- Tuskegee, Tuskegee ; To him who in his absence from himself ; The flesh of the young men is burning / Lance Jeffers -- Hard times a' coming ; Near miss / Nayo (Barbara Watkins) -- In my minds eye ; Till / Julius E. Thompson -- Son child / John Milton Wesley -- Jazz to Jackson to John ; Don't be fourteen (in Mississippi) / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- For Lil Louis ; Return to English turn ; Dream Orpheum balcony / Thomas C. Dent -- Moving ; Evening ; Childhood scenes in four seasons / Helen Quigless -- Baptism ; For Mark James Robert Essex, d. 1973 ; Feeling through ; When the wine was gone / Alvin Albert.
Drama.
Ritual murder / Thomas C. Dent -- Somewhere in the world / Kalamu ya Salaam (Val Ferdinand) --
Nonfiction.
Outta my name / Malaika Adero -- From Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass -- From The narrative of Hosea Hudson / Nell Irvin Painter -- From The choice : the issue of black survival in America / Samuel F. Yette -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- From Angela Davis : an autobiography / Angela Davis -- Return to the source / Joyce Ladner -- From This is my country too / John A. Williams -- From bridge across Jordan / Amelia Platts Boynton -- From Gather together in my name / Maya Angelou -- Notes on the movement : then, now, and tomorrow / Jack Hunter O'Dell -- Art and the movement / John O'Neal -- Wanted : some black long distance runners / John Oliver Killens -- Annie Devine remembers / Thomas C. Dent -- From South to a very old place / Albert Murray -- Going home / William Mackey, Jr. --
Critical essays.
Cliché, monotony, and touchstone : folk song composition and the new black poetry / Stephen E. Henderson -- On the death of Richard Wright / Hoyt W. Fuller -- Reclaiming the southern experience : the black aesthetic 10 years later / Addison Gayle, Jr. -- From mammies to militants ; The maid as southern and northern mammy / Trudier Harris -- The etched flame of Margaret Walker: biblical and literary re-creation in southern history / R. Baxter Miller.
Fiction.
From Black thunder / Arna Bontemps -- From Their eyes were watching god / Zora Neale Hurston -- The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright -- Withered skin of berries / Jean Toomer -- From Jubilee / Margaret Walker -- From Sippi / John Oliver Killens -- The lying bee / John Henrik Clarke -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- From Witherspoon / Lance Jeffers -- Return of the spouse / Arthenia B. Millican -- From A short walk / Alice Childress -- Mama Louise grabs her satchel and splits inside Doc John's cabin/his cave / Steve Cannon -- From Ludell and Willie / Brenda Wilkinson -- From South town / Lorenz Graham -- From De mojo blues / Arthur Flowers -- Going home / Carol Dixon -- How many miles to Bethlehem? / Joyce L. Dukes -- Heirs and orphans / Doris Jean Austin -- Miss Julie / Bill Williams Forde -- From This child's gonna live / Sarah Wright --
Poetry.
Spirituals and blues : selections from The negro caravan -- Spirituals -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Steal away -- Deep river -- I been rebuked and I been scorned -- Go down, Moses -- Slavery chain -- No more auction block -- St. Louis blues -- The southern blues -- Backwater blues -- Sister Lou ; Strong men / Sterling A. Brown -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- The ancient rain / Bob Kaufman -- A poem for myself ; Belly song ; Three songs / Etheridge Knight -- Mr. Tut's house / Julia Fields -- Clinton / Sterling D. Plumpp -- Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni -- The governor of Ollie Street ; By the 5th generation / Ahmos Zu-Bolton -- Tuskegee, Tuskegee ; To him who in his absence from himself ; The flesh of the young men is burning / Lance Jeffers -- Hard times a' coming ; Near miss / Nayo (Barbara Watkins) -- In my minds eye ; Till / Julius E. Thompson -- Son child / John Milton Wesley -- Jazz to Jackson to John ; Don't be fourteen (in Mississippi) / Jerry W. Ward, Jr. -- For Lil Louis ; Return to English turn ; Dream Orpheum balcony / Thomas C. Dent -- Moving ; Evening ; Childhood scenes in four seasons / Helen Quigless -- Baptism ; For Mark James Robert Essex, d. 1973 ; Feeling through ; When the wine was gone / Alvin Albert.
Drama.
Ritual murder / Thomas C. Dent -- Somewhere in the world / Kalamu ya Salaam (Val Ferdinand) --
Nonfiction.
Outta my name / Malaika Adero -- From Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass -- From The narrative of Hosea Hudson / Nell Irvin Painter -- From The choice : the issue of black survival in America / Samuel F. Yette -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- From Angela Davis : an autobiography / Angela Davis -- Return to the source / Joyce Ladner -- From This is my country too / John A. Williams -- From bridge across Jordan / Amelia Platts Boynton -- From Gather together in my name / Maya Angelou -- Notes on the movement : then, now, and tomorrow / Jack Hunter O'Dell -- Art and the movement / John O'Neal -- Wanted : some black long distance runners / John Oliver Killens -- Annie Devine remembers / Thomas C. Dent -- From South to a very old place / Albert Murray -- Going home / William Mackey, Jr. --
Critical essays.
Cliché, monotony, and touchstone : folk song composition and the new black poetry / Stephen E. Henderson -- On the death of Richard Wright / Hoyt W. Fuller -- Reclaiming the southern experience : the black aesthetic 10 years later / Addison Gayle, Jr. -- From mammies to militants ; The maid as southern and northern mammy / Trudier Harris -- The etched flame of Margaret Walker: biblical and literary re-creation in southern history / R. Baxter Miller.
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 468
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)
• Indexed in "The Columbia Granger's Index to African-American Poetry" (1999)
Item Number
A0268