The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1: 1746 - 1920

ISBN-13: 9780470657997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 1168 str.

Gene Andrew Jarrett

Opis

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 first volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the 1920s

The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Recenzje

"While anthologies, particularly in coverage of periods the most distant from our own, tend to suffer from a difficulty in having individual works maintain conversation with one another, Professor Jarrett's new anthology performs this task with ease. Each example in every genre is carefully chosen; some are new works that have been often discussed, but rarely anthologized. The entirety is a rich presentation of African American literature to the student, a welcoming introduction for the general reader, and a ready resource for scholars."--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"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

Spis treści

Editorial Advisory Board x

Preface xi

Introduction xvi

Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xix

Acknowledgments xxi

Part 1 The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, and Slavery: c.1746 1830 1

Introduction 3

Lucy Terry (c.1730 1821) 7
Bars Fight (1746) 8

Briton Hammon (dates unknown) 9
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760) 10

Phillis Wheatley (c.1753 1784) 15
From Poems on Various Subjects (1773) 17

To Maecenas 17

To the University of Cambridge, in New England 18

On Being Brought from Africa to America 19

On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell. 1769 20

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 21

On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age 22

On Recollection 23

On Imagination 25

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty s Principal Secretary of State for
North–America, &c. 26

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 27

A Farewell to America to Mrs. S.W. 28

Jupiter Hammon (1711 c.1806) 31

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, Who Came from Africa at Eight Years of Age, and Soon Became Acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1778) 32

John Marrant (1755 1791) 35
A Narrative of the Lord s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785) 36

Olaudah Equiano (1745 1797) 49
Extracts from Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789, 1791) 51

Chapter 1. The Author s Account of His Country, Their Manners and Customs, &c. 51

Chapter 2. The Author s Birth and Parentage His Being Kidnapped with His Sister Horrors of a Slave Ship 60

Chapter 3. The Author Is Carried to Virginia Arrives in England His Wonder at a Fall of Snow 69

Chapter 4. A Particular Account of the Celebrated Engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue 78

Chapter 5. Various Interesting Instances of Oppression, Cruelty, and Extortion 89

Chapter 10. Some Account of the Manner of the Author s Conversion to the Faith of Jesus Christ 99

Chapter 12. Different Transactions of the Author s Life Petition to the Queen Conclusion 109

David Walker (c.1785 1830) 119

Extracts from Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1829) 120

Article 1. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery 120

Article 2. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance 127

Part 2 The Literatures of Slavery and Freedom: c.1830 1865 137

Introduction 139

Omar ibn Said (1770 1864) 143
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (1831) 144

Frederick Douglass (1818 1895) 147
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1845) 149

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) 210

William Wells Brown (1814 1884) 221

Narrative of William Wells Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (1847, 1850) 223

The Escape; or, a Leap for Freedom: A Drama in Five Acts (1858) 263

Martin Robison Delany (1812 1885) 299

Extracts from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the
United States (1852) 300

Chapter 1. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered 300

Chapter 2. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States 301

Chapter 3. American Colonization 308

Chapter 4. Our Elevation in the United States 311

Chapter 5. Means of Elevation 313

Chapter 6. The United States Our Country 316

Chapter 17. Emigration of the Colored People of the United States 317

Chapter 23. A Glance at Ourselves Conclusion 317

Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1825 1900) 323
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) 324

Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 1897) 365
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. (1861) 367

Part 3 The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, and the New Negro: c.1865 1920 491

Introduction 493

Frank J. Webb (1828 1894) 497

Two Wolves and a Lamb (1870) 498

Marvin Hayle (1870) 524

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 1930) 548
Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad: A Musical Drama in Four Acts (1879) 550

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 1932) 565
What Is a White Man? (1889) 567

The Marrow of Tradition (1901) 573

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825 1911) 718
From Sketches of Southern Life (1891) 720

Aunt Chloe 720

The Deliverance 722

Aunt Chloe s Politics 729

Learning to Read 729

Church Building 731

The Reunion 731

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) 733

Anna Julia Cooper (1858 1964) 852

Extract from A Voice from the South (1892) 853

Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race 853

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) 867

From Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896) 869

The Poet and His Song 869

Accountability 870

Frederick Douglass 871

A Prayer 872

Passion and Love 873

An Ante–Bellum Sermon 873

Ode to Ethiopia 876

Whittier 877

A Banjo Song 877

To Louise 879

Alice 880

After the Quarrel 880

Beyond the Years 881

The Spellin –Bee 882

A Negro Love Song 884

The Colored Soldiers 885

Nature and Art 887

When De Co n Pone s Hot 888

The Deserted Plantation 889

We Wear the Mask 890

Phyllis 891

When Malindy Sings 891

Extract from The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904) 893

The Lynching of Jube Benson 893

Booker T. Washington (1856 1915) 899

Extract from Up from Slavery (1901) 901

Chapter 14. The Atlanta Exposition Address 901

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 1963) 909

The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 912

James Weldon Johnson (1871 1938) 1026

The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man (1912, 1927) 1028

Glossary 1102

Timeline 1110

Name Index 1121

Subject Index 1126

O autorze

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

Blurb

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.