The Cambridge history of African American literature / [edited by] Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Graham, Maryemma.; Ward, Jerry W., Jr., 1943-
2011
PS153.N5 G685 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge history of African American literature / [edited by] Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
ISBN 9780521872171
0521872170
Imprint Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xi, 847 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS153.N5 G685 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/896073
Summary "The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Graham, Maryemma.
Ward, Jerry W., Jr., 1943-
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Introduction / Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward
Sounds of a tradition : the souls of Black folk / F. Abiola Irele
Early print literature of Africans in America / Philip Gould
The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760-1820 / Vincent Carretta
Dividing a nation, uniting a people : African American literature and the abolitionist movement / Stefan M. Wheelock
African American literature and the abolitionist movement, 1845 to the Civil War / John Ernest
Writing freedom : race, religion, and revolution, 1820-1840 / Kimberly Blockett
"We wish to plead our own cause" : independent antebellum African American literature, 1840-1865 / Joycelyn Moody
Racial ideologies in theory and practice : political and cultural nationalism, 1865-1910 / Warren J. Carson
The "fictions" of race / Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger
"We wear the mask" : the making of a poet / Keith Leonard
Toward a modernist poetics / Mark A. Sanders
Foundations of African American modernism, 1910-1950 / Craig H. Werner and Sandra G. Shannon
The New Negro movement and the politics of art / Emily Bernard
African American literature and the Great Depression / Darryl Dickson-Carr
Weaving jagged words : the Black Left, 1930s-1940s / Nicole Waligora-Davis
Writing the American story, 1945-1952 / John Lowe
Geographies of the modern : writing beyond borders and boundaries / Sabine Broeck
African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent / Daryl Cumber Dance
Reform and revolution, 1965-1976 : the Black aesthetic at work / James E. Smethurst and Howard Ramsby II
History as fact and fiction / Trudier Harris
Redefining the art of poetry / Opal J. Moore
Cultural resistance and avant-garde aesthetics : African American poetry from 1970 to the present / Tony Bolden
New frontiers, cross-currents and convergences : emerging cultural paradigms / Madhu Dubey and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Children's and young adult literatures / Giselle Liza Anatol
From writer to reader : Black popular fiction / Candice Love Jackson
Cultural capital and the presence of Africa : Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and the power of Black theater / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
African American literature : foundational scholarship, criticism and theory / Lawrence P. Jackson
African American literatures and New World cultures / Kenneth W. Warren.

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