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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1

1746 - 1920

Herausgegeben von Jarrett, Gene Andrew

Beschreibung

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African AmericanLiterature is a comprehensive collection of poems, shortstories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essaysauthored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until thepresent. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also thefirst such anthology to be conceived and published for bothclassroom and online education in the new millennium.
Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure ofAfrican American literary studies
Selects literary texts according to extensive research onclassroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions ofleading professors
Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periodsof literary history, dividing them into seven sections thataccurately depict intellectual, cultural, and politicalmovements
Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections ofmajor works than any other anthology of its kind
This first volume contains a comprehensive collection oftexts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth centuryuntil the 1920s
The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be boughtas a set, at over 20% savings.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Anthologies .1
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1160
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1882g
• ISBN-13: 9780470658000
• ISBN-10: 0470658002
• Artikelnr.: 40028391

Rezensionen

"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." (Native American Encyclopedia, 6 February 2014)