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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Essays on African-American poets whose works helped to shape a contemporary literature, but also helped to reclaim, recapture, and reshape a culture, through their inventiveness and wisdom and have invigorated Afro-American and American literature in language, style, form, and substance.
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Essays on the multitalented, multigenred (sci-fi, juvenile lit, detective novels, etc.) African-American writers whose careers flourished after 1955, and the themes and issues reflected in their works: more strong black female protagonists; a move away from the traditional reverence for Christianity; concern with the black family, especially with black fathers; interactions within the black community; and a move toward not just recording history but...
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