Anthologies of African American Writing

African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

"African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" . Ed. Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 1993. xxiv+325 pp.

"African American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama" . Ed. Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry. 2nd ed. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC, 1998. xxii+495 pp.

Contents (1993 ed.):
• Nikki Giovanni / Foreword
• Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry / Preface

• Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry / A Historical Overview of the African American Literary Tradition

1: Slavery--Time of Trial
Introduction
• Frances Watkins Harper / The Slave Mother
• Phillis Wheatley / On Being Brought from Africa to America
• Robert Hayden / Runagate Runagate
• Frederick Douglass / Letter to His Master

2: Standing Ground
Introduction
• Countee Cullen / From the Dark Tower
• Claude McKay / If We Must Die
• Langston Hughes / I, Too
• Maya Angelou / Willie
• Arna Bontemps / A Summer Tragedy

3: The Folk Tradition
• Julius Lester / People Who Could Fly
• Julius Lester / Stagolee
• Anonymous / How Buck Won His Freedom
• A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen / The Steel Drivin' Man

4: On Being a Man
• Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man
• James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues
• William Melvin Kelley / The Only Man on Liberty Street
• Ernest J. Gaines / In My Father's House
• Malcolm X / To Mississippi Youth
• Langston Hughes / Mother to Son

5: On Being a Woman
Introduction
• Ntozake Shange / one thing i dont need /
• Paule Marshall / To Da-duh, In Memoriam
• Rita Dove / Magic
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Plumes
• Paulette Childress White / Getting the Facts of Life
• Lucille Clifton / Miss Rosie

6: Relationships, Love, and Conflicts
Introduction
• Charles W. Chesnutt / The Wife of His Youth
• Ann Petry / Like a Winding Sheet
• Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Bean Eaters

7: Passing Down Heritage
Introduction
• James Weldon Johnson / The Creation
• Alice Walker / Women
• Langston Hughes / Thank You, M'am
• Margaret Walker / For My People
• Mary Elizabeth Vroman / See How They Run
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / We Wear the Mask

8: Of Dreamers and Revolutionaries
Introduction
• Mari Evans / Vive Noir!
• Nikki Giovanni / Nikka-Roasa [sic]
• W. E. B. Du Bois / The Immediate Program of the American Negro
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
• Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) / Assassination
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / I Have a Dream

Glossary of Key Literary Terms
Index of Selection Titles and Authors

Envoi
• Maya Angelou / With Hope, Good Morning

"An anthology of over forty selections by African-American authors arranged by major themes. Includes biographical sketches of each author, an activity section, and writing assignments" (WorldCat).

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