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"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her...
These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her...
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"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
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[2023]
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English
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This groundbreaking anthology of Black writing during the Revolutionary Era features over 200 poems, letters, sermons, newspaper advertisements, slave narratives, travel accounts from over 100 different authors and reveals the richness and diversity of the Black experience in those years.
Pub. Date
1988
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English
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Essays on black American writers, both major and minor are presented, including poets, dramatists and playwrights. Many of these prominent black writers, whose works are taught and written about today, came to the forefront of the American literary scene during this period. The essays in this volume try to capture the nuances of the lives and literature of that period.
11) Black boy joy
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[2021]
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English
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A collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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1987
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English
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Essays on African-American men and women of letters whose works reflected a self-conscious striving to change popular perceptions of their people - to change racist attitudes; to preserve African heritage; diminish isolation between races; and to nurture distinctive racial characteristics.
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1986
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English
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Presents a corollary history of the publishing outlets and efforts of early Afro-American writers writing in the 1920s or before; focuses on how resourceful black writers had to be in order to get their works to the reading public before more substantial and self-sustaining publishing outlets were established.
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"Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends--until they weren't. Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ('The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' 'Let America Be America Again') were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote...
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1985
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English
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African-American dramatists and prose writers whose works grew out of or shaped the black arts movement, by creating prose and theatrical works relevant to black Americans. Works that reflect the increasing importance of autobiography and biography for expressing conceptions of self and of the meaning of Afro-American history.
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From one of America's most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us. "This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings, whimsy, and startling images which prove the poet's power and her command of language... Anyone with a love of language will be delighted with this book and the continuing publication...
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