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Black Fire: an Anthology of Afro-American Writing
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The defining work of the Black Arts Movement, Black Fire is at once a rich anthology and an extraordinary source document. Nearly 200 selections, including poetry, essays, short stories, and plays, from over 75 cultural critics, writers, and political leaders, capture the social and cultural turmoil of the 1960s.
Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred years of African-American Writing
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A comprehensive collection of African-American writing to date and includes poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
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National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
SOS/Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
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This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists'circles, writers'workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population.
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
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To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as a historical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter, a place of bodies that transcend the legislative, the economic--in other words, transcend the stuff that doesn't lend itself much poetry. In this view the imagination is postracial, a posthistorical and postpolitical utopia.
In the Tradition: an Anthology of Young Black writers
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Viki Akiwumi -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Sibby Anderson-Thompkins -- Martha Anthony -- Sabah As-Sabah -- Jabari Asim -- Askhari -- Asha Bandele -- Ras Baraka -- Paul Beatty -- Leticia R. Benson -- Charlie R. Braxton -- Nicole Breedlove -- Sonya Brooks -- Gordon Chambers -- Tracy Clarke -- Michelle T. Clinton -- Kimberly Ann Collins -- Lorena M. Craighead -- William T. Crawley III -- Malkia Amala Cyril and more
Breaking Ice: an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
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A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featured contributors include: J. California Cooper, Marita Golden, Gloria Naylor, Darryl Pinckney, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, Terry McMillan, and many others.
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love
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Second-hand man / Rita Dove -- Triple X / Shay Youngblood -- Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- The kick inside / Martha Southgate -- Secret pleasures / Bell Hooks -- Tamarind stew / Gayle Gonsalves -- Good brother blues / Pearl Cleage and more
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
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The book surveys a literary landscape, covering writers from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison to August Wilson. Over 400 entries span the entire range of African American writing - from works such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun to characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, and Sula Peace.
Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933
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Forty-one Afro-American women writers are examined in this unique anthology. Ranging from recognized poets to women who were "lost" or forgotten, the vitality of their literary endeavors paved the way for modern African American tradition.
African American Authors, 1745-1945
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A central objective of this reference book is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the first 200 years of African American literature. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 78 black writers active between 1745 and 1945. Among these writers are essayists, novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, and autobiographers.
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
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Moore traces black women writers'creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern work of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-create the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior.
Mutha' Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
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Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture explores the importance of sexual desire in the formation of radical Black females' subjectivities in Black women's culture through the trope of the indefinable trickster figure.
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
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Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca.
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