The Cambridge history of African American literature /

"The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn...

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Main Author: Graham, Maryemma
Other Authors: Ward, Jerry W., Jr., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward --  |g Part I.  |t African American Literature from Its Origins to the Twentieth Century:  |g 1. Sounds of a tradition: the souls of Black folk /  |r F. Abiola Irele;  |g 2.  |t Early print literature of Africans in America /  |r Philip Gould;  |g 3.  |t The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760-1820 /  |r Vincent Carretta;  |g 4.  |t Dividing a nation, uniting a people: African American literature and the Abolitionist Movement /  |r Stefan M. Wheelock;  |g 5. African American literature and the Abolitionist Movement, 1845 to the Civil War /  |r John Ernest;  |g 6.  |t Writing freedom: race, religion, and revolution, 1820-1840 /  |r Kimberly Blockett;  |g 7.  |t 'We wish to plead our own cause': independent Antebellum African American literature, 1840-1865 /  |r Joycelyn Moody;  |g 8.  |t Racial ideologies in theory and practice: political and cultural nationalism, 1865-1910 /  |r Warren J. Carson;  |g 9.  |t The 'fictions' of race /  |r Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger;  |g 10.  |t 'We wear the mask': the making of a poet /  |r Keith Leonard;  |g 11.  |t Toward a modernist poetics /  |r Mark A. Sanders --  |g Part II.  |t African American Literature Since the Twentieth Century:  |g 12.  |t Foundations of African American modernism, 1910-1950 /  |r Craig H. Werner and Sandra G. Shannon;  |g 13.  |t The New Negro Movement and the politics of art /  |r Emily Bernard;  |g 14.  |t African American literature and the Great Depression /  |r Darryl Dickson-Carr;  |g 15.  |t Weaving jagged words: the Black Left, 1930s-1940s /  |r Nicole Walingora-Davis;  |g 16.  |t Writing the American story, 1945-1952 /  |r John Lowe;  |g 17. Geographies of the modern: writing beyond borders and boundaries /  |r Sabine Broeck;  |g 18.  |t African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent /  |r Daryl Cumber Dance;  |g 19.  |t Reform and revolution, 1965-1976: the Black aesthetic at work /  |r James E. Smethurst and Howard Ramsby II;  |g 20.  |t History as fact and fiction /  |r Trudier Harris;  |t 21. Redefining the art of poetry /  |r Opal J. Moore;  |g 22.  |t Cultural resistance and avant-garde aesthetics: African American poetry from 1970 to the present /  |r Tony Bolden;  |g 23.  |t New frontiers, cross-currents and convergencies: emerging cultural paradigms /  |r Madhu Dubey and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg --  |g Part III.  |t African American Literature as Academic and Cultural Capital:  |g 24.  |t Children's and young adult literatures /  |r Giselle Liza Anatol;  |g 25.  |t From writer to reader: Black popular fiction /  |r Candice Love Jackson;  |g 26.  |t Cultural capital and the presence of Africa: Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and the power of Black theatre /  |r Harry J. Elam;  |g 27. African American literature: foundational scholarship, criticism and theory /  |r Lawrence P. Jackson;  |g 28.  |t African American literatures and new world cultures /  |r Kenneth W. Warren. 
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