The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 (eBook, PDF)

1920 to the Present
Redaktion: Jarrett, Gene Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. * Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies * Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors * Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements * Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind * This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118824776.html">bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 1120
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118559512
• Artikelnr.: 40343395

Autorenporträt

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University. He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago Michele Elam, Stanford University Philip Gould, Brown University George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Werner Sollors, Harvard University John Stauffer, Harvard University Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial Advisory Board xv Preface xvi Introduction xxi Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920
1940 1 Introduction 3 Claude McKay (1889
1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882
1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894
1967) 77 Countée Cullen (1903
1946) 125 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868
1963) 137 Rudolph Fisher (1897
1934) 164 Helene Johnson (1906
1995) 190 Alain Locke (1885
1954) 197 Langston Hughes (1902
1967) 207 George S. Schuyler (1895
1977) 219 Dorothy West (1907
1998) 244 Zora Neale Hurston (1891
1960) 251 Nella Larsen (1891
1964) 261 Sterling A. Brown (1901
1989) 318 Richard Wright (1908
1960) 332 Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940
1965 385 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917
2000) 391 Robert Hayden (1913
1980) 418 Chester Himes (1909
1984) 426 Ann Petry (1908
1997) 441 James Baldwin (1924
1987) 472 Ralph Ellison (1914
1994) 512 Lorraine Hansberry (1930
1965) 599 Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965
1975 607 Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613 Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637 Larry Neal (1937
1981) 649 Lucille Clifton (1936
2010) 661 Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672 Toni Cade Bambara (1939
1995) 680 June Jordan (1936
2002) 686 Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709 Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715 Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725 Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733 Audre Lorde (1934
1992) 761 Octavia Butler (1947
2006) 778 Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820 Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835 August Wilson (1945
2005) 869 Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915 Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922 Suzan
Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947 Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951 Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957 Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978 John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988 Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999 Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005 Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021 Glossary 1032 Timeline 1040 Name Index 1053 Subject Index 1058

Rezensionen

"Gene Andrew Jarrett reintroduces to us voices that we do not often hear in anthologies. Works by Harryette Mullen, Suzan-Lori Parks, Walter Mosely, and Percival Everett, among others, glow and sing here, and complete the broad mosaic that Professor Jarrett so successfully reconstructs of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature by people of African descent."
--Nathan L Grant, African American Review
"Expansive, instructive, fascinating and surprising, this magnificent anthology is pieced together with superb editorial judgment and offers insights on every page. Here is a rich, many-voiced literary tradition unfolding across the centuries in all its exhilarating diversity and unmatched power. Certain to become seminal and essential, this is a treasure that belongs on all our bookshelves."
--Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham

"A deeply and dynamically qualitative engagement with the complex history of African American literary expression, from its broad, interconnecting roots through to its diverse socio-political outlook. As Gene Andrew Jarrett attests, this is not an encyclopedic volume, nor does it intend to be: instead, Jarrett provides the reader with a cogent and memorable seminar in the intellectual history of U.S. Black creative expression. Essential analyses of style, genre, and artistic revolutions are present here, allowing each selection to retain its unique contribution even while locating it within collective movements. For instructors, this anthology will provide even neophytes with a rich, layered, and nuanced understanding of a grand tradition; for scholars and lay readers alike, this anthology offers a new yet grounded take on a literature and a people three centuries old yet always in the making and (re)making."
--Michelle M. Wright, Northwestern University

"With its recognition of the claims and issues of a new millennium, the Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature - in its desire to unsettle traditions, its representation of African American literary diversity, its playful decentering of canonical protocols, and its delight in the ironies of racial expression - may well be called the first postmodern African American literary anthology. For African Americanist scholars and teachers, this anthology is a long-awaited treasure. With its excellent period introductions, headnotes, textual annotations, a glossary and timeline that present the latest scholarship, this anthology responds to the contemporary moment. Along with what the editors calls a "scholarly and pedagogic ecosystem" that connects the print anthology with an entire audio and visual network of scholarship and pedagogy, this anthology is not only responding to, but creating, the contemporary study and teaching of African American literature."
--Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland
"The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a welcome new intervention, full of strikingly fresh choices and featuring as many works in their entirety, and as many longer selections of major works, as possible. These volumes will help recast the vast range of U.S. black writing for a generation to come."
--Eric Lott, University of Virginia