The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2: 1920 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780470671931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 1120 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 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 bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

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.