Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

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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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

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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. The first volume explores literature up to 1920 and the second, literature since 1920. The contents result from extensive research on the needs of students and instructors, the cutting-edge developments in scholarship, and the expert guidance of Gene Andrew Jarrett and the diverse and distinguished advisory editors. As a result, the anthology organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements.

Volume 1 showcases the special literatures of Africa, the Middle Passage, and slavery in the early national period; of slavery and freedom in the antebellum and Civil War periods; and of Reconstruction and racial uplift in the New Negro period. Volume 2 exhibits the remarkable literatures of the New Negro Renaissance in the modern period; of modernism, modernity, and civil rights; of nationalism, militancy, and the Black Aesthetic; and, finally, of the contemporary period.

With the inclusion of extensive pedagogical features, including a preface, volume and period introductions, author headnotes, selected scholarly bibliographies, and textual annotations, the anthology is strategically designed to support students and instructors, and address the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature.

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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.19201940 1

Introduction 3

Claude McKay (18891948) 7

Jessie Fauset (18821961) 58

Jean Toomer (18941967) 77

Countée Cullen (19031946) 125

W.E.B. Du Bois (18681963) 137

Rudolph Fisher (18971934) 164

Helene Johnson (19061995) 190

Alain Locke (18851954) 197

Langston Hughes (19021967) 207

George S. Schuyler (18951977) 219

Dorothy West (19071998) 244

Zora Neale Hurston (18911960) 251

Nella Larsen (18911964) 261

Sterling A. Brown (19011989) 318

Richard Wright (19081960) 332

**Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.19401965 385

Gwendolyn Brooks (19172000) 391

Robert Hayden (19131980) 418

Chester Himes (19091984) 426

Ann Petry (19081997) 441

James Baldwin (19241987) 472

Ralph Ellison (19141994) 512

Lorraine Hansberry (19301965) 599

**Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.19651975 607

Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613

Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637

Larry Neal (19371981) 649

Lucille Clifton (19362010) 661

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665

Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672

Toni Cade Bambara (19391995) 680

June Jordan (19362002) 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 (19341992) 761

Octavia Butler (19472006) 778

Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808

Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820

Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835

August Wilson (19452005) 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