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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
1920 to the Present
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eBook - ePub
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
1920 to the Present
About this book
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
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Yes, you can access The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Gene Andrew Jarrett in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & North American Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the website
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Preface
- Introduction
- Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents (by Genre)
- Part One: The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance
- Part Two: The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights
- Part Three: The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic
- Part Four: The Literatures of the Contemporary Period
- Glossary
- Timeline: 1920 to the Present
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Wiley Blackwell Anthologies