Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature
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Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature
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"The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature" . Ed. Rochelle Smith and Sharon L. Jones. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. xxii+1,130 pp.+1 audio disc ("Living Words." Comp. Kevin Everod Quashie and Stuart L. Twite).
Table of contents
● Randall Kenan / Foreword
● Preface: To the Student
● Preface: To the Instructor
● Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION 1
THE COLONIAL PERIOD 1746-1800
● Introduction
● Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) / Excerpt [from “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”]
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / On Being Brought from Africa to America
● Phillis Wheatley / On Imagination
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / To His Excellency General Washington
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / Letter to Samson Occom
● Caesar Grant / [Oral Traditions] All God's Chillen Had Wings
● Lucy Terry Prince (1730-1821) / Bars Fight, August 28, 1746
●Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806) / An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penetential Cries
● [Oral Traditions] Motherless Child
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / The Lover's Farewell
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / On Liberty and Slavery
● Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) / Letter to Thomas Jefferson
THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD 1800-1865
● Introduction
● David Walker (1785-1830) / Excerpt [from “Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World”]
● Harriet Jacobs (1812-1897)/ Excerpt [from “Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl”]
● William Wells Brown (1814-1884) / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
● [Oral Traditions] Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
● Harriet E. Wilson (1828-1863) / Excerpt [from “Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North: Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There”]
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / Except [from “Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted”]
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Two Offers
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Slave Mother
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / Ethiopia
● Charlotte L. Forten Grimke (1837-1914) / Excerpt [from “The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke”]
● Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) / Excerpt [from “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”]
● [Oral Traditions] Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
● Sojourner Truth(1797-1883) / Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention
THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD 1865-1900
● Introduction
● Elizabeth Keckley (1824?-1907) / Excerpt [from “Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House”]
● Victoria Earle Matthews / [Oral Traditions] The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman
● Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) / The Goophered Grapevine
● Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) / Po' Sandy
● Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) / Excerpt [from “Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice”]
● Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964) / Excerpt [from “A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South”]
● Reverend Henry McNeal Turner / [Oral Traditions] How Long? How Long, O Heaven?
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / We Wear the Mask
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Frederick Douglass
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / When Malindy Sings
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / The Colored Soldiers
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
● W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) / Excerpt [from “The Souls of Black Folk”]
● Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) / Excerpt [from “Up from Slavery”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / O Black and Unknown Bards
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / The Creation
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Excerpt [from “Black Manhattan”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / [Oral Traditions] Our Democracy and the Ballot
● Angelina Wel Grimke (1880-1958) / Rachel
● Anne Spencer (1882-1975) / Dunbar
● Anne Spencer (1882-1975) / The Wife-Woman
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / The Tropics in New York
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / America
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / Spring in New Hampshire
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / Double Trouble
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / The Sleeper Wakes
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / Excerpt [from “Comedy: American Style”]
● Dorothy West (1907-1998) / The Typewriter
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / Excerpt [from “Their Eyes Were Watching God”]
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / How It Feels to Be Colored Me
● Jean Toomer (1875-1935) / Excerpt [from “Cane”]
● Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / I Sit and Sew
● Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / Violets
● Nella Larsen (1891-1964) / Excerpt [from “Quicksand”]
● Alain Locke (1886-1954) / Excerpt [from “The New Negro”]
● Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) / Excerpt [from “The Blacker the Berry”]
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Mother to Son
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Harlem [2]
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / I, Too
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Dream Boogie Variation
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Theme for English B
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Incident
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Heritage
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Yet Do I Marvel
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Odyssey of Big Boy
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Old Lem
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Memphis Blues
● Marita Bonner (1899-1971) / Excerpt [from “The Purple Flower”]
● Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
● Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) / Close Your Eyes!
THE PROTEST MOVEMENT 1940-1959
● Introduction
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / For My People
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / Ex-Slave
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / Lineage
● Ann Petry (b. 1908) / Excerpt [from “The Street”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Excerpt [from “Native Son”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / The Man Who Lived Underground
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Excerpt [from “Black Boy”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / The Man Who Was Almost a Man
● Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) / Excerpt [from “Invisible Man”]
● Paul Robeson / [Oral Traditions] “Welcome Home" Rally Speech
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Mother
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Rites for Cousin Vit
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / What Shall I Give My Children?
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
● James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Excerpt [from “Go Tell It on the Mountain”]
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / Middle Passage
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / The Ballad of Nat Turner
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / The Diver
● [Oral Traditions] We Shall Overcome
● Lorraine Hansberry / Excerpt from [“A Raisin in the Sun”]
BLACK AESTHETICS MOVEMENT 1960-1969
● Introductions
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Black Bourgeoisie
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Poem for Half White College Students
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / The Pressures
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Return of the Native
● Malcom X (1925-1965) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”]
● Marvin Gaye / [Oral Traditions] What's Going On
● Marvin Gaye and James Nyx / [Oral Traditions] Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
● Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) / Letter from Birmingham Jail
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / Poem at Thirty
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict
● Nikki Giovanni ( b. 1943) / Nikki-rosa
● Nikki Giovanni ( b. 1943) / Beautiful Black Men
● Alice Childress (1920-1994) / Wine in the Wilderness
● Audre Lorde / [Oral Traditions] Learning from the 60s
● Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) / Excerpt [from “Soul on Ice”]
● Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) / Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X
● Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) / Poet: What Ever Happended to Luther?
● Ernest Gaines (b. 1933) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of Miss June Pittman”]
● Ernest Gaines (b. 1933) / The Sky Is Gray
● Gil Scott Heron / [Oral Traditions] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
● Maya Angelou (b.1928) / Excerpt [from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”]
● Audre Lorde (1934-1992) / Coal
● Audre Lorde (1934-1992) / Black Mother Woman
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / To Hell With Dying
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Strong Horse Tea
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Excerpt [from “The Color Purple”]
● Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) / The Lesson
● Charles Johnson (b. 1948) / Excerpt [from “Middle Passage”]
● Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) / Excerpt [from “Linden Hills”]
● John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) / Excerpt [from “Damballah”]
● August Wilson (b. 1945) / The Piano Lesson
● "Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1936) / Oakland Blues
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Independance Day in the U.S.A.
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Song of the Law Abiding Citizen
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Relativity
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / American History
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Black Study
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Village Blues
● Jesse Jackson / [Oral Traditions] Address to the Democratic National Convention
● Michelle Cliff (b.1946) / Excerpt [from “Abeng”]
● Octavia Butler / Excerpt [from “Kindred”]
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Gospel
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Obedience
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Variation on Pain
● Walter Mosley (b. 1952) / Excerpt [from “Devil in a Blue Dress”]
● Randall Kenan (b. 1963) / Clarence and the Dead (And What Do They Tell You, Clarence? And the Dead Speak to Clarence)
‘● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / The Deck
● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / Rhythm Method
● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / You and I Are Disappearing
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM
● Introduction
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Benjamin Brawley (1882-1939) / The Negro in American Fiction
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Blueprint for Negro Writing
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / What White Publishers Won't Print
● Addison Gayle, Jr. (1932-1991) / The Function of Black Literature at the Present Time
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / The Revolutionary Theatre
● Lorraine Hansberry / [Oral Traditions] A Challenge to Artists
● Larry Neal (1937-1981) / The Blacks Arts Movement
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
● Barbara Smith (b. 1946) / Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
● Robert B. Stepto (b. 1945) / Excerpt [from “From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative”]
● Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950) / Excerpt [from “Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars”]
● Toni Morrison (b. 1931) / Excerpt [from “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”]
● Toni Morrison / [Oral Traditions] Noble Prize Acceptance Speech
● Cornel West (b. 1953) / The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
● Hazel Carby (b. 1948) / Excerpt [from “Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist”]
● Gayl Jones (b. 1949)/ Excerpt [from “Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature”]
Writing About African American Literature
● Genre
● Narrative Voice
● Character
● Themes
● Plot
● Sociohistorical Context
● Aesthetics
● Critical Theory
●Timeline
● Credits
● Index
● Kevin Everod Quashie and Stuart L. Twite / [Living Words] An Audio CD of African American Oral Tradition.
● Preface: To the Student
● Preface: To the Instructor
● Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION 1
THE COLONIAL PERIOD 1746-1800
● Introduction
● Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) / Excerpt [from “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”]
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / On Being Brought from Africa to America
● Phillis Wheatley / On Imagination
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / To His Excellency General Washington
● Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) / Letter to Samson Occom
● Caesar Grant / [Oral Traditions] All God's Chillen Had Wings
● Lucy Terry Prince (1730-1821) / Bars Fight, August 28, 1746
●Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806) / An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penetential Cries
● [Oral Traditions] Motherless Child
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / The Lover's Farewell
● George Moses Horton (1797-1883) / On Liberty and Slavery
● Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) / Letter to Thomas Jefferson
THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD 1800-1865
● Introduction
● David Walker (1785-1830) / Excerpt [from “Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World”]
● Harriet Jacobs (1812-1897)/ Excerpt [from “Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl”]
● William Wells Brown (1814-1884) / The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
● [Oral Traditions] Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
● Harriet E. Wilson (1828-1863) / Excerpt [from “Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North: Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There”]
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / Except [from “Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted”]
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Two Offers
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / The Slave Mother
● Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) / Ethiopia
● Charlotte L. Forten Grimke (1837-1914) / Excerpt [from “The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke”]
● Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) / Excerpt [from “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”]
● [Oral Traditions] Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
● Sojourner Truth(1797-1883) / Address to the Ohio Women's Rights Convention
THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD 1865-1900
● Introduction
● Elizabeth Keckley (1824?-1907) / Excerpt [from “Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House”]
● Victoria Earle Matthews / [Oral Traditions] The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman
● Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) / The Goophered Grapevine
● Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) / Po' Sandy
● Pauline E. Hopkins (1859-1930) / Excerpt [from “Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice”]
● Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964) / Excerpt [from “A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South”]
● Reverend Henry McNeal Turner / [Oral Traditions] How Long? How Long, O Heaven?
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / We Wear the Mask
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / Frederick Douglass
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / When Malindy Sings
● Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) / The Colored Soldiers
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
● W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) / Excerpt [from “The Souls of Black Folk”]
● Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) / Excerpt [from “Up from Slavery”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / O Black and Unknown Bards
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / The Creation
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / Excerpt [from “Black Manhattan”]
● James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) / [Oral Traditions] Our Democracy and the Ballot
● Angelina Wel Grimke (1880-1958) / Rachel
● Anne Spencer (1882-1975) / Dunbar
● Anne Spencer (1882-1975) / The Wife-Woman
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / The Tropics in New York
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / America
● Claude McKay (1889-1948) / Spring in New Hampshire
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / Double Trouble
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / The Sleeper Wakes
● Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / Excerpt [from “Comedy: American Style”]
● Dorothy West (1907-1998) / The Typewriter
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / Excerpt [from “Their Eyes Were Watching God”]
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / How It Feels to Be Colored Me
● Jean Toomer (1875-1935) / Excerpt [from “Cane”]
● Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / I Sit and Sew
● Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / Violets
● Nella Larsen (1891-1964) / Excerpt [from “Quicksand”]
● Alain Locke (1886-1954) / Excerpt [from “The New Negro”]
● Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) / Excerpt [from “The Blacker the Berry”]
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Mother to Son
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Harlem [2]
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / I, Too
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Dream Boogie Variation
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / Theme for English B
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Incident
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Heritage
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / Yet Do I Marvel
● Countee Cullen (1903-1946) / To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Odyssey of Big Boy
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Old Lem
● Sterling Brown (1901-1989) / Memphis Blues
● Marita Bonner (1899-1971) / Excerpt [from “The Purple Flower”]
● Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
● Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) / Close Your Eyes!
THE PROTEST MOVEMENT 1940-1959
● Introduction
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / For My People
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / Ex-Slave
● Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) / Lineage
● Ann Petry (b. 1908) / Excerpt [from “The Street”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Excerpt [from “Native Son”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / The Man Who Lived Underground
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Excerpt [from “Black Boy”]
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / The Man Who Was Almost a Man
● Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) / Excerpt [from “Invisible Man”]
● Paul Robeson / [Oral Traditions] “Welcome Home" Rally Speech
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Mother
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Rites for Cousin Vit
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / What Shall I Give My Children?
● Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) / The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
● James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Excerpt [from “Go Tell It on the Mountain”]
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / Middle Passage
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / The Ballad of Nat Turner
● Robert Hayden (1913-1982) / The Diver
● [Oral Traditions] We Shall Overcome
● Lorraine Hansberry / Excerpt from [“A Raisin in the Sun”]
BLACK AESTHETICS MOVEMENT 1960-1969
● Introductions
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Black Bourgeoisie
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Poem for Half White College Students
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / The Pressures
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / Return of the Native
● Malcom X (1925-1965) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”]
● Marvin Gaye / [Oral Traditions] What's Going On
● Marvin Gaye and James Nyx / [Oral Traditions] Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
● Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) / Letter from Birmingham Jail
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / Poem at Thirty
● Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) / Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict
● Nikki Giovanni ( b. 1943) / Nikki-rosa
● Nikki Giovanni ( b. 1943) / Beautiful Black Men
● Alice Childress (1920-1994) / Wine in the Wilderness
● Audre Lorde / [Oral Traditions] Learning from the 60s
● Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) / Excerpt [from “Soul on Ice”]
● Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) / Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X
● Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) / Poet: What Ever Happended to Luther?
● Ernest Gaines (b. 1933) / Excerpt [from “The Autobiography of Miss June Pittman”]
● Ernest Gaines (b. 1933) / The Sky Is Gray
● Gil Scott Heron / [Oral Traditions] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
● Maya Angelou (b.1928) / Excerpt [from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”]
● Audre Lorde (1934-1992) / Coal
● Audre Lorde (1934-1992) / Black Mother Woman
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / To Hell With Dying
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Strong Horse Tea
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / Excerpt [from “The Color Purple”]
● Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) / The Lesson
● Charles Johnson (b. 1948) / Excerpt [from “Middle Passage”]
● Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) / Excerpt [from “Linden Hills”]
● John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) / Excerpt [from “Damballah”]
● August Wilson (b. 1945) / The Piano Lesson
● "Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) / I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
● Ishmael Reed (b. 1936) / Oakland Blues
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Independance Day in the U.S.A.
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Song of the Law Abiding Citizen
● June Jordan (b. 1936) / Relativity
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / American History
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Black Study
● Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) / Village Blues
● Jesse Jackson / [Oral Traditions] Address to the Democratic National Convention
● Michelle Cliff (b.1946) / Excerpt [from “Abeng”]
● Octavia Butler / Excerpt [from “Kindred”]
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Gospel
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Obedience
● Rita Dove (b. 1952) / Variation on Pain
● Walter Mosley (b. 1952) / Excerpt [from “Devil in a Blue Dress”]
● Randall Kenan (b. 1963) / Clarence and the Dead (And What Do They Tell You, Clarence? And the Dead Speak to Clarence)
‘● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / The Deck
● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / Rhythm Method
● Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) / You and I Are Disappearing
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM
● Introduction
● Langston Hughes (1902-1967) / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Benjamin Brawley (1882-1939) / The Negro in American Fiction
● Richard Wright (1908-1960) / Blueprint for Negro Writing
● Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / What White Publishers Won't Print
● Addison Gayle, Jr. (1932-1991) / The Function of Black Literature at the Present Time
● Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) / The Revolutionary Theatre
● Lorraine Hansberry / [Oral Traditions] A Challenge to Artists
● Larry Neal (1937-1981) / The Blacks Arts Movement
● Alice Walker (b. 1944) / In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
● Barbara Smith (b. 1946) / Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
● Robert B. Stepto (b. 1945) / Excerpt [from “From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative”]
● Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (b. 1950) / Excerpt [from “Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars”]
● Toni Morrison (b. 1931) / Excerpt [from “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”]
● Toni Morrison / [Oral Traditions] Noble Prize Acceptance Speech
● Cornel West (b. 1953) / The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
● Hazel Carby (b. 1948) / Excerpt [from “Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist”]
● Gayl Jones (b. 1949)/ Excerpt [from “Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature”]
Writing About African American Literature
● Genre
● Narrative Voice
● Character
● Themes
● Plot
● Sociohistorical Context
● Aesthetics
● Critical Theory
●Timeline
● Credits
● Index
● Kevin Everod Quashie and Stuart L. Twite / [Living Words] An Audio CD of African American Oral Tradition.
See also
● Smith, Rochelle, and Sharon Jones. "The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature: Instructor's Manual." Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Item Number
A0343