The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature Vol 2 1920 to the Present 2014 1st Edition Gene Andrew Jarrett 1118559320 9780470671931

Front Matter

Table of Contents (by Chronology)

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Notes

Introduction

Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents (by Genre)

Poetry or Poetics

Autobiography

Essay

Drama

Fiction

Novel or Novella

Part One The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance c. 1920–1940

Introduction

Claude McKay (1889–1948)

Whe’ fe Do?

Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture

America

The Tropics in New York

Harlem Shadows

The White City

Africa

The Tired Worker

If We Must Die

Chapter 1: The Ditch

Chapter 2: The Breakwater

Chapter 3: Malty Turned Down

Second Part6

Chapter 16: The “Blue Cinema”

Chapter 17: Breaking-up

Third Part9

Chapter 23: Shake That Thing Again

Chapter 25: Banjo’s Ace of Spades

Notes

Songs of Jamaica

Banjo: A Story without a Plot

Jessie Fauset (1882–1961)

Double Trouble1

I

II

III

Dark Algiers the White1

I

II

NOTE

Double Trouble

Dark Algiers the White

Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

Extract from Cane

Bona and Paul

1

2

3

4

Balo

Winter on Earth1

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Race Problems in Modern Society1

Notes

Cane

Balo

Winter on Earth

Race Problems in Modern Society

Countée Cullen (1903–1946)

Yet Do I Marvel

Tableau

Incident

Heritage

To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time*

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

Four Epitaphs

Millennial

At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem

From the Dark Tower

Uncle Jim

To Certain Critics

Notes

Yet Do I Marvel

Tableau

Incident

Heritage

To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time

Millennial

From the Dark Tower

To Certain Critics

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)

The Negro Mind Reaches Out

The Shadow Of Portugal

The Shadow Of Belgium

The Shadow Of France

The Shadow Of England

Labor In The Shadows

The Shadow Of Shadows

Criteria of Negro Art1

Notes

The New Negro

Criteria of Negro Art

Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934)

The City of Refuge1

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Blades of Steel1

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

The Caucasian Storms Harlem

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Notes

The City of Refuge

The City of Refuge

Blades of Steel

The Caucasian Storms Harlem

Helene Johnson (1906–1995)

My Race1

The Road1

Magula1

A Southern Road1

Bottled1

Poem1

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem1

Summer Matures1

Invocation1

Remember Not1

Notes

My Race

The Road

Magula

A Southern Road

Bottled

Poem

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

Summer Matures

invocation

Alain Locke (1885–1954)

The New Negro1

Notes

Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain1

The Weary Blues

Jazzonia

Harlem Night Club

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Danse Africaine

Epilogue

Dream Boogie

Juke Box Love Song

Ballad of the Landlord

Notes

George S. Schuyler (1895–1977)

The Negro-Art Hokum1

Extracts from Black No More; Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933–1940

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Notes

The Negro-Art Hokum

Black No More

Dorothy West (1907–1998)

The Typewriter1

Notes

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

The Back Room1

How It Feels to Be Colored Me1

Notes

The Back Room

How it Feels to Be Colored Me

Nella Larsen (1891–1964)

Passing

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Notes

Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)

Odyssey of Big Boy

When de Saints Go Ma’ching Home

Southern Road

Memphis Blues

Ma Rainey

Tin Roof Blues

Cabaret

Salutamus

O Gentlemen the time of Life is short.

To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden

Richard Wright (1908–1960)

Extract from Uncle Tom’s Children

Big Boy Leaves Home1

I

II

III

IV

V

Blueprint for Negro Writing1

How “Bigger” Was Born1

Notes

Uncle Tom’s Children

Blueprint for Negro Writing

How “Bigger” Was Born

Part Two The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights c.1940–1965

Introduction

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)

A Street in Bronzeville

Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood

The Anniad

The Womanhood

Notes

Robert Hayden (1913–1980)

Middle Passage1

The Ballad1 of Nat Turner

Notes

Chester Himes (1909–1984)

A Night of New Roses1

Da-Da-Dee1

Tang1

Notes

Ann Petry (1908–1997)

The Bones of Louella Brown1

In Darkness and Confusion1

Notes

The Bones of Louella Brown

In Darkness and Confusion

James Baldwin (1924–1987)

Extracts from Notes of a Native Son

Everybody’s Protest Novel1

Notes of a Native Son4

I

II

III

Extract from Going to Meet the Man

Sonny’s Blues1

Notes

Notes of a Native Son

Going to Meet the Man

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)

Extracts from Invisible Man

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 6

Chapter 9

Extract from Shadow and Act

Hidden Name and Complex Fate

Notes

Invisible Man

Shadow and Act

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)

Willie Loman, Walter Younger, and He Who Must Live1

Prior Attitudes

New Typicality

Huge Obstacles

Not So Small

Notes

Part Three The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic c.1965–1975

Introduction

Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

Extract from Home: Social Essays

The Myth of a “Negro Literature”1

Crow Jane

For Crow Jane

Crow Jane’s Manner.

Crow Jane In High Society.

Crow Jane The Crook.

The dead lady canonized.

I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer

Political Poem

Scene 1

Scene 2

Notes

Home: Social Essays

Crow Jane

Dutchman

Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931)

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Author’s Note

Scene: Funnyman’s place.

Scene: Queen’s Chamber.

Scene: Duchess’s place.

Notes

Larry Neal (1937–1981)

Extract from Black Fire

And Shine Swam On

Notes

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)

[in the inner city] [My Mama moved among the days] [My daddy’s fingers move among the couplers]

The white boy

Ca’line’s prayer

Generations

Notes

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

Brother John

Where is My Woman Now: For Billie Holiday

Malcolm’s Blues

Dirge for Trane

American History

Deathwatch

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)

Extract from A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman

Part One: Introduction (Queens of the Universe)1

Notes

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)

Extract from Gorilla, My Love

My Man Bovanne1

Notes

June Jordan (1936–2002)

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.

If You Saw a Negro Lady

And Who Are You?

Toward a Personal Semantics

What Would I Do White?

No Train of Thought

I Celebrate the Sons of Malcolm

Last Poem for a Little While

On the Black Poet Reading His Poems in the Park

On the Black Family

Calling on All Silent Minorities

No Poem Because Time Is Not a Name

The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley February, 1985

Notes

Part Four The Literatures of the Contemporary Period c.1975 to the Present

Introduction

Samuel Delany (b. 1942)

Extract from Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories

Omegahelm1

Notes

Ntozake Shange (b. 1948)

Extract from for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Notes

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Extracts from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

Looking for Zora1

Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View6

Extract from The Color Purple

[Celie Discovers Nettie’s Missing Letters]

Notes

Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

Extracts from Sister Outsider

Poetry Is Not a Luxury*

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House*

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference*

The Black Unicorn

Coniagui Women

For Assata

New Brunswick Prison, 1977

In Margaret’s Garden

Woman

But What Can You Teach My Daughter

Sister Outsider

Notes

Poetry is Not a Luxury

Octavia Butler (1947–2006)

Extracts from Kindred

Prologue

The River

The Fire

1

2

3

4

5

6

Notes

Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)

Extracts from The Women of Brewster Place

Dawn

The Block Party

Dusk

Notes

Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

Recitatif1

Notes

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Thomas and Beulah

August Wilson (1945–2005)

Fences

Characters

Act 1

Scene 1

Act 1

Scene 2

Act 1

Scene 3

Act 1

Scene 4

Act 2

Scene 1

Act 2

Scene 2

Act 2

Scene 3

Act 2

Scene 4

Act 2

Scene 5

Notes

Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)

Extract from Lucy

Poor Visitor

Notes

Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)

Extract from A Lesson Before Dying

Chapter 271

Chapter 28

Chapter 29 Jefferson’s Diary

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Notes

Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963)

Extract from The America Play and Other Works

An Equation for Black People Onstage

Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)

Extract from Krik? Krak!

New York Day Women

Walter Mosley (b. 1952)

Black to The Future

Science fiction may have a special allure for African-Americans1

Extract from Futureland

The Nig in Me

1

2

3

4

5

6

Notes

Percival Everett (b. 1956)

Extract from Damned If I Do

The Fix1

Notes

John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)

Extract from God’s Gym

Weight1

Notes

Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)

All She Wrote

The Anthropic Principle

Bleeding Hearts

Daisy Pearl

Denigration

Dim Lady

Ectopia

Exploring the Dark Content

Music for Homemade Instruments

Natural Anguish

Resistance Is Fertile

Sleeping with the Dictionary

We Are Not Responsible

Edward P. Jones (b. 1950)

Extract from The Known World

Chapter 1

Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948)

The End of the Black American Narrative

A New Century Calls for New Stories Grounded in the Present, Leaving Behind the Painful History of Slavery and Its Consequences1

Notes

Back Matter

Glossary

Timeline: 1920 to the Present

Name Index

Subject Index

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