African American Literature (Penguin Academics Series)

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African-American Literatureis thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature.The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African American literature. The thematic approach gives readers a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.Those interested in African-American literature.

Preface

xxi

The Middle Passage, Mourning, and Survival

(116)

Further Reading

(1)

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

from The Interesting Narrative

(14)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

``Middle Passage''

(5)

Henry Dumas (1934-1968)

``Ark of Bones''

(12)

Toni Morrison (1931-)

from Beloved

(4)

Charles Johnson (1948-)

from Middle Passage

(4)

August Wilson (1945-)

from Joe Turner's Come and Gone

(4)

Everett Hoagland (1942-)

``Homecoming''

(3)

``Goree''

(4)

``Dust''

(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

from The Souls of Black Folk

(5)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

``A Death Song''

(1)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

``A Brown Girl Dead''

(1)

Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)

from Black Thunder

(8)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

from Their Eyes Were Watching God

(7)

Alice Walker (1944-)

from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

(17)

``Burial''

(3)

``View from Rosehill Cemetery''

(1)

Ernest Gaines (1933-)

from A Gathering of Old Men

100

(7)

Julie Dash (1952-)

from Daughters of the Dust

107

(9)

Writing Assignments

116

(1)

The Influence of the Spirituals

117

(120)

Further Reading

121

(1)

Anonymous

``God's Going to Trouble the Water''

122

(1)

Anonymous

``Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?''

122

(3)

Anonymous

``Swing Low, Sweet Chariot''

125

(1)

Anonymous

``Steal Away to Jesus''

126

(1)

Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806)

``An Evening Thought''

127

(3)

Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)

``On Being Brought from Africa to America''

130

(1)

``Letter to Samson Occum''

130

(1)

Anonymous

``Go Down, Moses''

131

(5)

Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)

from ``Moses: A Story of the Nile''

136

(23)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

``An Ante-Bellum Sermon''

159

(2)

Anonymous

``God's Gonna Set This World on Fire''

161

(1)

Anonymous

``Dry Bones''

162

(1)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

``O Black and Unknown Bards''

163

(1)

``The Judgment Day''

164

(3)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

``Runagate Runagate''

167

(3)

Lauryn Hill (1975-)

``Final Hour''

170

(1)

Anonymous

``Walk Together Children''

171

(2)

John Oliver Killens (1916-1987)

from Youngblood

173

(31)

William Melvin Kelley (1937-)

from A Different Drummer

204

(18)

Amiri Baraka (1934-)

``When We'll Worship Jesus''

222

(3)

Carolyn Rodgers (1945-)

``Jesus Was Crucified''

225

(3)

``It Is Deep''

228

(1)

Anonymous

``There's No Hiding Place Down There''

229

(1)

Curtis Mayfield (1942-1997)

``People Get Ready''

230

(1)

Anonymous

``I've Been 'Buked''

231

(1)

James Brown (1933-)

``Say It Loud''

232

(1)

Charlie Braxton (1961-)

``Apocalypse''

233

(1)

Nicole Breedlove (1970-)

``The New Miz Praise De Lawd''

234

(1)

Writing Assignments

235

(2)

The South as Literary Landscape

237

(94)

Further Reading

240

(1)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave, Written by Himself

241

(19)

Margaret Walker (1915-1988)

``Southern Song''

260

(1)

Jean Toomer (1894-1967)

from Cane

261

(11)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

``Big Boy Leaves Home''

272

(34)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

from Their Eyes Were Watching God

306

(5)

Gloria Naylor (1950-)

from Mama Day

311

(8)

Maya Angelou (1928-)

from Gather Together in My Name

319

(8)

Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

``Strange Fruit''

327

(1)

Arrested Development

``Tennessee''

328

(2)

Writing Assignments

330

(1)

Folklore and Literature

331

(120)

Further Reading

335

(1)

Anonymous

``The Signifying Monkey''

336

(2)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

``Goophered Grapevine''

338

(12)

``Po' Sandy''

350

(9)

Anonymous

``Railroad Bill''

359

(1)

Ishmael Reed (1938-)

``Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man''

360

(6)

from Flight to Canada

366

(8)

Anonymous

``Stagolee''

374

(1)

Anonymous

``The Sinking of the Titanic''

375

(2)

Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)

``I Sing of Shine''

377

(1)

Anonymous

``John Henry''

378

(4)

Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)

``The Birth of John Henry''

382

(1)

Colson Whitehead (1969-)

from John Henry Days

383

(6)

Ntozake Shange (1948-)

from Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

389

(39)

Tina McElroy Ansa (1949-)

from Baby of the Family

428

(21)

Writing Assignments

449

(2)

Expressions of Blues and Jazz

451

(110)

Further Reading

454

(1)

W. C. Handy (1873-1958)

``St. Louis Blues''

455

(2)

Bessie Smith (1894-1937)

``Backwater Blues''

457

(1)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

``The Weary Blues''

458

(1)

``Midwinter Blues''

459

(1)

``Ma Man''

460

(1)

``Wide River''

460

(1)

``Flatted Fifths''

461

(1)

``Jam Session''

462

(1)

``The Backlash Blues''

462

(1)

Ma Rainey (1886-1939)

``See, See Rider''

463

(1)

``Sissy Blues''

464

(1)

``Prove It on Me Blues''

464

(2)

Sterling Brown (1901-1989)

``Ma Rainey''

466

(1)

``New St. Louis Blues''

467

(3)

Quincy Troupe (1939-)

``River Town Packin House Blues''

470

(3)

Mari Evans

``Liberation Blues''

473

(1)

``Lee Morgan''

474

(2)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

``Sonny's Blues''

476

(29)

Ted Joans (1928-2003)

``Jazz Is''

505

(1)

``Jazz Is My Religion''

506

(1)

``Him the Bird''

506

(2)

Bob Kaufmann (1925-1986)

``His Horn''

508

(1)

``O-Jazz-O''

508

(1)

Amiri Baraka (1934-)

``Am/Trak''

509

(6)

Sonia Sanchez (1934-)

``a/coltrane/poem''

515

(3)

Jayne Cortez (1936-)

``Into This Time''

518

(3)

``Solo Finger Solo''

521

(1)

Xam Wilson Cartier (1949-)

from Be-Bop, Re-Bop

522

(12)

Sterling Plumpp (1940-)

``Law Giver in the Wilderness''

534

(3)

``Ornate with Smoke''

537

(5)

``Riffs''

542

(2)

``My History''

544

(4)

Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-)

``Elegy for Thelonius''

548

(1)

``February in Sydney''

549

(1)

Angela Jackson (1951-)

``Billie in Silk''

550

(2)

``Make/n My Music''

552

(1)

Brian Gilmore (1962-)

``d.c.-harlem suite''

553

(7)

Writing Assignments

560

(1)

Stories of Migration

561

(134)

Further Reading

565

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

from The Sport of the Gods

566

(91)

Ma Rainey (1886-1939)

``Traveling Blues''

657

(1)

Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and Clara Smith (1894-1935)

``Faraway Blues''

658

(1)

Alain Locke (1886-1954)

``The New Negro''

659

(11)

Toni Morrison (1931-)

from Jazz

670

(5)

Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)

from Invisible Man

675

(10)

Arthur Flowers (1950-)

from Another Good Loving Blues

685

(7)

Writing Assignments

692

(3)

Urban Landscapes

695

(100)

Further Reading

698

(1)

Nathan McCall (1955-)

from Makes Me Wanna Holler

699

(15)

John Edgar Wideman (1941-)

from Brothers and Keepers

714

(9)

Eugene B. Redmond (1937-)

``City Night Storm''

723

(1)

``We're Tight, Soul-Tight---Like Lincolnites''

724

(4)

``Indigenous Daughter Awake in the Dreams of Nana''

728

(1)

``Choreo-Empress' Leg-a-cy Lands on East Saint Earth, 2nd Take''

729

(2)

``Wishing...''

731

(1)

Terry McMillan (1951-)

from Mama

732

(8)

Rita Dove (1952-)

``The Zulus''

740

(3)

``Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967''

743

(2)

``My Mother Enters the Work Force''

745

(1)

Wanda Coleman (1946-)

``Fast Eddie''

746

(1)

``Flight of the California Condor (2)''

747

(2)

``Dominoes''

749

(1)

``Low English''

750

(1)

``Sears Life''

751

(1)

``South Central Los Angeles Deathtrip 1982''

752

(5)

Lamont B. Steptoe (1949-)

``Window Shopping''

757

(1)

``Kennywood''

758

(1)

``Three Legged Chairs''

759

(1)

``Spooked''

759

(1)

``Seamstress''

760

(1)

``A Ghosted Blues''

761

(1)

Mursalata Muhammad (1969-)

``Detroit''

762

(1)

``Street Play''

763

(1)

``Women at the House of Braids Discuss Flo Jo''

764

(2)

Keith Gilyard (1952-)

``The Hatmaker''

766

(4)

``Anyone Heard from Manuel?''

770

(11)

Walter Mosley (1952-)

``The Thief''

781

(13)

Writing Assignments

794

(1)

A Strand of Social Protest

795

(136)

Further Reading

798

(1)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

from Native Son

799

(16)

Chester Himes (1909-1984)

from If He Hollers Let Him Go

815

(10)

Ann Petry (1908-1997)

from The Street

825

(14)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

``Tell Me''

839

(1)

``Harlem [2]''

839

(1)

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

A Raisin in the Sun

840

(88)

Writing Assignments

928

(3)

Jeremiads

931

(106)

Further Reading

936

(1)

David Walker (1785-1830)

Article III of the Appeal

937

(8)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

``The Blood of the Slave on the Skirts of the Northern People''

945

(4)

``Emancipation, Racism, and the Work Before Us''

949

(11)

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

``Speech at the Atlanta Exposition''

960

(3)

from The Future of the American Negro

963

(14)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)

from A Red Record

977

(4)

from Mob Rule in New Orleans

981

(2)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

``The Niagara Movement''

983

(3)

``Awake America''

986

(1)

from The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois

987

(6)

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)

``Certain Unalienable Rights''

993

(10)

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

``Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church''

1003

(4)

``I Have a Dream''

1007

(4)

from Where Do We Go From Here?

1011

(6)

Cornel West (1953-)

``Beyond Multiculturalism & Eurocentrism''

1017

(14)

``A Twilight Civilization''

1031

(3)

Writing Assignments

1034

(3)

Discourses of Black Nationalism

1037

(104)

Further Reading

1041

(1)

David Walker (1785-1830)

Preamble plus Articles I and II of the Appeal

1041

(28)

Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

``Address at the African Masonic Hall''

1069

(7)

Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)

``A Glance at Ourselves''

1076

(7)

``A Project for an Expedition of Adventure, to the Eastern Coast of Africa''

1083

(4)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

``The Conservation of Races''

1087

(11)

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

``Africa for the Africans''

1098

(4)

``The Future as I See It''

1102

(5)

``First Speech after Release from Tombs Prison Delivered at Liberty Hall, New York City, September 13, 1923''

1107

(5)

Malcolm X (1925-1965)

``The Black Revolution''

1112

(6)

``The Ballot or the Bullet''

1118

(18)

Haki Madhubuti (1942-)

``Standing as an African Man''

1136

(3)

Writing Assignments

1139

(2)

Statements of Feminism

1141

(108)

Further Reading

1146

(1)

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)

``Speech Delivered to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio'' (Campbell and Gage versions)

1147

(3)

``Speech Delivered to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association''

1150

(2)

Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

``Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886)''

1152

(19)

Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907)

``The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman''

1171

(6)

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966)

``The Heart of a Woman''

1177

(1)

``My Little Dreams''

1178

(1)

``Free''

1178

(5)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

from Maud Martha

1183

(8)

June Jordan (1936-2002)

``A Song of Sojourner Truth''

1191

(2)

``Where Is the Love?''

1193

(6)

``A New Politics of Sexuality''

1199

(5)

``Report from the Bahamas''

1204

(10)

Alice Walker (1944-)

from The Color Purple

1214

(11)

``A Name Is Sometimes an Ancestor Saying Hi, I'm With You''

1225

(1)

Bell Hooks (1952-)

``Feminism: It's a Black Thing''

1226

(9)

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

``The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House''

1235

(3)

Joan Morgan (1965-)

``the f-word''

1238

(9)

Writing Assignments

1247

(2)

The Black Aesthetic

1249

(82)

Further Reading

1253

(1)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

``My People''

1253

(1)

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

``Heritage''

1254

(3)

``From the Dark Tower''

1257

(1)

Claude McKay (1889-1948)

``If We Must Die''

1258

(1)

``Enslaved''

1259

(1)

``Outcast''

1259

(1)

Helene Johnson (1906-1995)

``Poem''

1260

(1)

``Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem''

1261

(1)

Margaret Walker (1915-1998)

``For My People''

1262

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

``The Mother''

1263

(2)

``Malcolm X''

1265

(1)

Quincy Troupe (1939-)

``Old Black Ladies Standing on Bus Stop Corners #2''

1265

(3)

Amiri Baraka (1934-)

``A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand''

1268

(1)

``Black Art''

1269

(1)

``A Poem for Black Hearts''

1270

(2)

John A. Williams (1925-)

from The Man Who Cried I Am

1272

(4)

Haki Madhubuti (1942-)

``Back Again, Home''

1276

(1)

``We Walk the Way of the New World''

1277

(3)

Nikki Giovanni (1943-)

``Black Power''

1280

(1)

``Poem for Black Boys''

1280

(1)

``The Great Pax Whitie''

1281

(3)

Larry Neal (1937-1981)

``Black Writing''

1284

(1)

``One Spark Can Light a Prairie Fire''

1285

(2)

Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979)

``Black Man's Feast''

1287

(1)

``Evil Is No Black Thing''

1288

(2)

``Tripping with Black Writing''

1290

(8)

Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)

``The Lesson''

1298

(7)

Sonia Sanchez (1934-)

``Listenen to Big Black at S.F. State''

1305

(1)

``This Is Not a Small Voice''

1306

(1)

``From a Black Feminist Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet''

1307

(2)

``Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara''

1309

(3)

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-)

``The Revolution Will Not Be Televised''

1312

(2)

Derrick I. M. Gilbert (1970-)

``The Revolution Will Be on the Big Screen''

1314

(2)

``Reparation''

1316

(4)

``Why I Would Never Buy a Jeep Cherokee''

1320

(3)

Tony Medina (1966-)

``Doorway Dirge''

1323

(1)

``The Movie I Would Make''

1324

(1)

``This Week's Ebony/Jet Showcase's Top Ten Hip Hop Video Singles''

1325

(1)

``Taxes''

1325

(2)

Kenneth Carroll (1959-)

``On Watching the Republican Convention''

1327

(1)

``So What!''

1327

(3)

Writing Assignments

1330

(1)

Select Chronology of African American Literature

1331

(6)

Credits

1337

(10)

Index

1347

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African American Literature (Penguin Academics Series)

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