African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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"African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology" . Ed. Al Young. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. xvi+563 pp.
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Table of contents
● Ishmael Reed / Foreword
● Acknowledgments
● Introduction
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
● Jourdon Anderson (19th Century) / To my old Master
● Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897) / from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
● Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) / from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
● Lorenzo Ezell (WPA Archives) / I Could Be a Conjure Doctor and Make Plenty Money
● Marriah Hines (WPA Archives) / My White Folks Treated Us Good
● Lizzie Williams (WPA Archives) / Don’t Guess Names Matter Much No Ways
● Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) / from Satchmo
● Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) / Remembering Richard Wright
● Al Young (b. 1939) / Somebody Done Hoodoo’d the Hoodoo Man
● Samuel R. Delaney (b. 1942) / The Motion of Light in Water
● ltabarf Njeri (b. 1954) / Granddaddy
FICTION
● Charles W. Chestnutt (1858-1932) / The Wife of His Youth
● Zora Neale Hurston (1881-1960) / Sweat
● Jean Toomer (1894-1967) / Esther
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Almo’s a Man
● Chester Himes (1908-1960) / Headwaiter
● Ann Petry (b. 1911) / Like a Winding Sheet
● Frank Yerby (1916-1991) / The Homecoming
● James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Sonny’s Blues,
● John A. Williams (b. 1925) / Son in the Afternoon
● Paule Marshall (b. 1929) / To Da-duh In Memoriam
● Kristin Hunter (b. 1931) / The Jewel in the Lotus
● Toni Morrison (b. 1931) / Recitatif
● Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) / The Sky Is Gray
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Answers in Progress
● Clarence Major (b. 1936) / Five Years Ago
● William Melvin Kelley (b. 1937) / The Only Man on Liberty Street
● Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939) / The Lesson
● John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) / everybody knew bubba riff
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Nineteen Fifty-Five
● Brenda Flanagan (b. 1944) / To Die of Old Age in a Foreign Country
● Charles Johnson (b. 1948) / Menagerie
● Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) / Girl
● Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) / Kiswana Browne
● Terry McMillan (b. 1951) / The End
● Fatima Shaik (b. 1952) / The One That Did Not Get Away
● Trey Ellis (b. 1962) / Guess Who’s Coming to Seder
● Jerome Wilson (b. 1969) / Paper Garden
POETRY
● Jupiter Hammon (1720-1806) / An Evening Thought
● Lucy Terry (1730-1821) / Bars Fight
● Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) / Imagination
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / On Liberty and Slavery
● Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Slave Auction
● W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) / The Song of the Smoke
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Lift Every Voice and Sing
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / The Creation
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / When Malindy Sings
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / We Wear the Mask
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / The Tropics in New York
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) /The Lynching
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / If We Must Die
● Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) / Lamda
● Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) / African China
● Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) / After Winter
● Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) / Foreclosure
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Harlem
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Weary Blues
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / I, Too, Sing America
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Mother to Son Havana Dreams
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Birmingham Sunday
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / Frederick Douglass
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / The Whipping
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / Homage to the Empress of the Blues
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / The Wise
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Incident
● Dudley Randall (b. 1914) / Booker T. and W. E. B
● Dudley Randall (b. 1914) / An Answer to Lerone Bennett’s Questionnaire on a Name for Black
Americans
● Margaret Walker (b. 1915) / Miss Molly Means
● Margaret Walker (b. 1915) / October Journey
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / First Fight
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / Then Fiddle On DeWitt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Birth in a Narrow Room
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / We Real Cool
● James A. Emanuel (b. 1921) / Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital
● James A. Emanuel (b. 1921) / Son
● Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) / Walking Parker Home
● Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) / Battle Report
● Maya Angelou (b. 1928) / Willie
● Derek Walcott (b. 1928) / A Far Cry from Africa
● Derek Walcott (b. 1930) / Omeros
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal
Insane
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / The Idea of Ancestry
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / Haiku
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
● Andre Lorde (1934-1992) / 125th Street and Abomey
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
● Colleen McElroy (b. 1936) / My Father’s Wars
● Colleen McElroy (b. 1936) / Queen of the Ebony Isles
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Good Times
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Homage to My Hips
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Quilting
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / Railroad Bill
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / A Conjure Man
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / The Reactionary Poet
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / Lake Bud
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Blue Ruth: America
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Time for Tyner: Folksong
● Primus St. John (b. 1942) / Worship
● Joyce Carol Thomas (b. 1942) / Church Poem
● Cecil M. Brown (b. 1943) / Excerpts from Stagolee’s Memoirs
● Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) / Nikki-Rosa
● David Henderson (b. 1943) / Third Eye World
● David Henderson ( b. 1943) / Death of the Ice Queen
● Quincy Troupe (b. 1943) / Poem for My Father
● Lorenzo Thomas (b. 1943) / Wonders
● Lorenzo Thomas (b. 1944) / Historiography
● O. O. Gabugah (b. 1945) / The Old O. O. Blues
● O. O. Gabugah (b. 1945) / A Poem for Players
● Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) / New and Old Gospel
● George Barlow (b. 1948) / American Plethora: MacCorporate MacDream
● Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) / Rite-ing
● Kofi Natambu (b. 1950) / For Billie Holiday
● Kofi Natambu (b. 1950) / The History of Faces
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Banneker
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Canary
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / ö
● Cyrus Cassells (b. 1958) / Tokyo Story
● Carl Phillips (b. 1959) / Africa Says
● Carl Phillips (b. 1959) / What Myth Is
● Harryette Mullen (b. 1960) / Mujer de Volcanes y Terremotos
● Harryette Mullen (b. 1960) / She Landed on the Moon
● Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) / The Venus Hottentot
● Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) / Boston Year
● Kool Moe Dee (b. 1962) / Knowledge Is King
● Kevin Young (b. 1970) / The Preserving
DRAMA
● Bill Harris (b. 1941) / He Who Endures
● Alternate Table of Contents by Theme
● Selected Bibliography
● Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines of Poems
● Acknowledgments
● Acknowledgments
● Introduction
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
● Jourdon Anderson (19th Century) / To my old Master
● Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897) / from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
● Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) / from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
● Lorenzo Ezell (WPA Archives) / I Could Be a Conjure Doctor and Make Plenty Money
● Marriah Hines (WPA Archives) / My White Folks Treated Us Good
● Lizzie Williams (WPA Archives) / Don’t Guess Names Matter Much No Ways
● Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) / from Satchmo
● Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) / Remembering Richard Wright
● Al Young (b. 1939) / Somebody Done Hoodoo’d the Hoodoo Man
● Samuel R. Delaney (b. 1942) / The Motion of Light in Water
● ltabarf Njeri (b. 1954) / Granddaddy
FICTION
● Charles W. Chestnutt (1858-1932) / The Wife of His Youth
● Zora Neale Hurston (1881-1960) / Sweat
● Jean Toomer (1894-1967) / Esther
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Almo’s a Man
● Chester Himes (1908-1960) / Headwaiter
● Ann Petry (b. 1911) / Like a Winding Sheet
● Frank Yerby (1916-1991) / The Homecoming
● James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Sonny’s Blues,
● John A. Williams (b. 1925) / Son in the Afternoon
● Paule Marshall (b. 1929) / To Da-duh In Memoriam
● Kristin Hunter (b. 1931) / The Jewel in the Lotus
● Toni Morrison (b. 1931) / Recitatif
● Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) / The Sky Is Gray
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Answers in Progress
● Clarence Major (b. 1936) / Five Years Ago
● William Melvin Kelley (b. 1937) / The Only Man on Liberty Street
● Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939) / The Lesson
● John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) / everybody knew bubba riff
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Nineteen Fifty-Five
● Brenda Flanagan (b. 1944) / To Die of Old Age in a Foreign Country
● Charles Johnson (b. 1948) / Menagerie
● Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) / Girl
● Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) / Kiswana Browne
● Terry McMillan (b. 1951) / The End
● Fatima Shaik (b. 1952) / The One That Did Not Get Away
● Trey Ellis (b. 1962) / Guess Who’s Coming to Seder
● Jerome Wilson (b. 1969) / Paper Garden
POETRY
● Jupiter Hammon (1720-1806) / An Evening Thought
● Lucy Terry (1730-1821) / Bars Fight
● Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) / Imagination
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / On Liberty and Slavery
● Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Slave Auction
● W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) / The Song of the Smoke
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Lift Every Voice and Sing
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / The Creation
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / When Malindy Sings
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / We Wear the Mask
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / The Tropics in New York
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) /The Lynching
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / If We Must Die
● Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) / Lamda
● Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) / African China
● Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) / After Winter
● Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) / Foreclosure
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Harlem
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Weary Blues
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / I, Too, Sing America
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Mother to Son Havana Dreams
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Birmingham Sunday
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / Frederick Douglass
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / The Whipping
● Robert Hayden (1913-1980) / Homage to the Empress of the Blues
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / The Wise
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Incident
● Dudley Randall (b. 1914) / Booker T. and W. E. B
● Dudley Randall (b. 1914) / An Answer to Lerone Bennett’s Questionnaire on a Name for Black
Americans
● Margaret Walker (b. 1915) / Miss Molly Means
● Margaret Walker (b. 1915) / October Journey
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / First Fight
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / Then Fiddle On DeWitt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Birth in a Narrow Room
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / We Real Cool
● James A. Emanuel (b. 1921) / Black Muslim Boy in a Hospital
● James A. Emanuel (b. 1921) / Son
● Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) / Walking Parker Home
● Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) / Battle Report
● Maya Angelou (b. 1928) / Willie
● Derek Walcott (b. 1928) / A Far Cry from Africa
● Derek Walcott (b. 1930) / Omeros
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal
Insane
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / The Idea of Ancestry
● Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) / Haiku
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
● Andre Lorde (1934-1992) / 125th Street and Abomey
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King
● Colleen McElroy (b. 1936) / My Father’s Wars
● Colleen McElroy (b. 1936) / Queen of the Ebony Isles
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Good Times
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Homage to My Hips
● Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) / Quilting
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / Railroad Bill
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / A Conjure Man
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / The Reactionary Poet
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / Lake Bud
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Blue Ruth: America
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Time for Tyner: Folksong
● Primus St. John (b. 1942) / Worship
● Joyce Carol Thomas (b. 1942) / Church Poem
● Cecil M. Brown (b. 1943) / Excerpts from Stagolee’s Memoirs
● Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) / Nikki-Rosa
● David Henderson (b. 1943) / Third Eye World
● David Henderson ( b. 1943) / Death of the Ice Queen
● Quincy Troupe (b. 1943) / Poem for My Father
● Lorenzo Thomas (b. 1943) / Wonders
● Lorenzo Thomas (b. 1944) / Historiography
● O. O. Gabugah (b. 1945) / The Old O. O. Blues
● O. O. Gabugah (b. 1945) / A Poem for Players
● Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) / New and Old Gospel
● George Barlow (b. 1948) / American Plethora: MacCorporate MacDream
● Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) / Rite-ing
● Kofi Natambu (b. 1950) / For Billie Holiday
● Kofi Natambu (b. 1950) / The History of Faces
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Banneker
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Canary
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / ö
● Cyrus Cassells (b. 1958) / Tokyo Story
● Carl Phillips (b. 1959) / Africa Says
● Carl Phillips (b. 1959) / What Myth Is
● Harryette Mullen (b. 1960) / Mujer de Volcanes y Terremotos
● Harryette Mullen (b. 1960) / She Landed on the Moon
● Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) / The Venus Hottentot
● Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) / Boston Year
● Kool Moe Dee (b. 1962) / Knowledge Is King
● Kevin Young (b. 1970) / The Preserving
DRAMA
● Bill Harris (b. 1941) / He Who Endures
● Alternate Table of Contents by Theme
● Selected Bibliography
● Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines of Poems
● Acknowledgments
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