Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing /

Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing /

Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of peop...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oliver, Stephanie Stokes (Editor), Giovanni, Nikki (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2018.
Edition:First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Books and reading > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans in literature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
American essays > African Americans.
African Americans > Books and reading.
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword:
  • Our first stories / Nikki Giovanni ; Introduction:
  • Reading matters / Stephanie Stokes Oliver
  • The peril, 1800-1900. Suspected of having a book / Frederick Douglass
  • Nine years deprived of a sheet of paper / Solomon Northrup
  • A whole race begins to read / Booker T. Washington
  • The Negro in literature and art / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The power, 1900-1968
  • Books and things / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Poetry is practical / Langston Hughes
  • The business of the writer / James Baldwin
  • Turning point / Malcolm X
  • Lessons in living / Maya Angelou
  • Morehouse College / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The site of memory / Toni Morrison
  • Where are the people of color in children's books? / Walter Dean Myers
  • Reading for revolution / Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture]
  • Twenty-one / Alice Walker
  • A temporary library in a small place / Jamaica Kincaid
  • What is an African American classic? / Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • New Black scribe / Terry McMillan
  • The pleasure, 1968-2017
  • MFA vs. POC / Junot Díaz
  • Create dangerously / Edwidge Danticat
  • How to write / Colson Whitehead
  • From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself / Marlon James
  • I once was Miss America / Roxane Gay
  • The mecca / Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The danger of the single story / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Bonus feature
  • What books mean to me / President Barack Obama
  • an interview with Michiko Kakutani.