Anthologies of African American Writing

Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

"Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present" . Ed. Angelyn Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994. xii+532 pp.

Introduction. Voices Within the Circle: A Historical Overview of African American Literary Criticism -- The New Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro in American Literature / William Stanley Braithwaite -- The Gift of Laughter / Jessie Fauset -- The Negro-Art Hokum / George S. Schuyler -- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain / Langston Hughes -- Criteria of Negro Art / W.E.B. DuBois -- Our Literary Audience / Sterling A. Brown -- Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Blueprint for Negro Writing / Richard Wright -- American Negro Literature / J. Saunders Redding -- What White Publishers Won't Print / Zora Neale Hurston -- New Poets / Margaret Walker -- Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity / Ralph Ellison -- Everybody's Protest Novel / James Baldwin -- Integration and Race Literature / Arthur P. Davis -- The Myth of a "Negro Literature" / LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka).

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[Kinnamon 1997 does not address anthologies and collections that were published after 1994, though I have added the "not in Kinnamon 1997" notation to anthologies up through 1996 to eliminate any ambiguity]

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