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

1920 to the Present
Redaktion: Jarrett, Gene Andrew

• Format: PDF

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

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