Masterpieces of African-American literature
Item details
- ISBN: 0062700669
- ISBN: 9780062700667
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Physical Description:
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xii, 593 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©1992.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | All God's children need traveling shoes / Maya Angelou -- Another country / James Baldwin -- Appalachee Red / Raymond Andrews -- Autobiographical writings of William Wells Brown, the / William Wells Brown -- Autobiography of an ex-coloured man, the / James Weldon Johnson -- Autobiography of Malcolm X, the / Malcolm X -- Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman, the / Ernest J. Gaines -- Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois, the / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Babel-17 / Samuel R. Delany -- Banana bottom / Claude McKay -- Beetlecreek / William Demby -- Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- Black thunder / Arna Bontemps -- Blacker the berry, the / Wallace Thurman -- "Blue meridian" / Jean Toomer -- Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin -- Bluest eye, the / Toni Morrison -- Bright shadow / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman -- Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall -- Cane / Jean Toomer -- Captain Blackman / John A. Williams -- Chaneysville incident, the / David Bradley -- Clotel / William Wells Brown -- Color purple, the / Alice Walker -- Condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States politically considered, the / Martin Robison Delany -- Conjure woman, the / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Contending forces / Pauline Hopkins -- Content of our character, the / Shelby Steele -- Corregidora / Gayl Jones -- Dahomean, the / Frank G. Yerby -- Dessa Rose / Sherley Anne Williams -- Devil in a blue dress / Walter Mosley -- Different drummer, a / William Melvin Kelley -- Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Eva's man / Gayle Jones -- Faith and the good thing / Charles Johnson -- Fences / August Wilson -- Fire next time, the / James Baldwin -- Flight to Canada / Ishmael Reed -- For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- Gemini / Nikki Giovanni -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- God bless the child / Kristin Hunter -- Hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich, a / Alice Childress -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Homewood trilogy, the / John Edgar Wideman -- House behind the cedars, the / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Hurry home / John Edgar Wideman -- I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou -- If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes -- In the wine time / Ed Bullins -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, the / Olaudah Equiano -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- Iola Leroy / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Joe Turner's come and gone / August Wilson -- Jonah's gourd vine / Zora Neale Hurston -- Kindred / Octavia E. Butler -- Lawd today / Richard Wright -- Let the circle be unbroken / Mildred D. Taylor -- Linden hills / Gloria Naylor -- Long dream, the / Richard Wright -- Ma Rainey's black bottom / August Wilson -- Mama / Terry McMillan -- Man who cried I am, the / John A. Williams -- Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown -- Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Maud Martha / Gwendolyn Brooks -- M. C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton -- Measure of time, a / Rosa Guy -- Meridian / Alice Walker -- Middle passage / Charles Johnson -- Moses, man of the mountain / Zora Neale Hurston -- Mumbo jumbo / Ishmael Reed -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Narrows, the / Ann Petry -- Native son / Richard Wright -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- Our nig / Harriet E. Wilson -- Outsider, the / Richard Wright -- Oxherding tale / Charles Johnson -- Painted turtle / Clarence Major -- Passing / Nella Larsen -- Photograph, a / Ntozake Shange -- Piano lesson, the / August Wilson -- Plum bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Poetry of Ai, the / Ai -- Poetry of Amiri Baraka, the / Amiri Baraka -- Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, the / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Poetry of Sterling Brown, the / Sterling Brown -- Poetry of Lucille Clifton, the / Lucille Clifton -- Poetry of Countee Cullen, the / Countee Cullen -- Poetry of Owen Dodson, the / Owen Dodson -- Poetry of Rita Dove, the / Rita Dove -- Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, the / Nikki Giovanni -- Poetry of Michael S. Harper, the / Michael S. Harper -- Poetry of Robert Hayden, the / Robert Hayden -- Poetry of George Moses Horton, the / George Moses Horton -- Poetry of Langston Hughes, the / Langston Hughes -- Poetry of June Jordan, the / June Jordan -- Poetry of Etheridge Knight, the / Etheridge Knight -- Poetry of Audre Lorde, the / Audre Lorde -- Poetry of Claude McKay, the / Claude McKay -- Poetry of Haki Madhubuti, the / Haki Madhubuti -- Poetry of Carolyn M. Rodgers, the / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Poetry of Sonia Sanchez, the / Sonia Sanchez -- Poetry of Melvin B. Tolson, the / Melvin B. Tolson -- Poetry of Alice Walker, the / Alice Walker -- Poetry of Phillis Wheatley, the / Phillis Wheatley -- Poetry of Jay Wright, the / Jay Wright -- Praisesong for the widow / Paule Marshall -- Quicksand / Nella Larsen -- Raisin in the sun, a / Lorraine Hansberry -- Rat's mass, a / Adrienne Kennedy -- Reckless eyeballing / Ishmael Reed -- Reflex and bone structure / Clarence Major -- Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor -- Roots / Alex Haley -- Runner Mack / Barry Beckham -- Salt Eaters, the / Toni Cade Bambara -- Sign in Sidney Brustein's window, the / Lorraine Hansberry -- Slavery and social death / Orlando Patterson -- Soldier's play, a / Charles Fuller -- Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison -- Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver -- Souls of black folk, the / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., the / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Sport of the gods, the / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delany -- Stories of Henry Dumas, the / Henry Dumas -- Stories of Langston Hughes, the / Langston Hughes -- Stories of James Alan McPherson, the / James Alan McPherson -- Street, the / Ann Petry -- Sula / Toni Morrison -- Sweet whispers, brother rush / Virginia Hamilton -- System of Dante's hell, the / Amiri Baraka -- Taking of Miss Janie, the / Ed Bullins -- Tar baby / Toni Morrison -- Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Third life of Grange Copeland, the / Alice Walker -- Trouble in mind / Alice Childress -- Women of Brewster place, the / Gloria Naylor -- Yellow back radio broke-down / Ishmael Reed. |
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