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A unique & vital guide that summarizes, explains, & evaluates the greatest works of African-American literature--including articles on writings from James Baldwin, W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Malcom X, Toni Morrison, & many more. The newest book in the successful masterpieces of. Series, masterpieces of African-American literature features critical descriptions of the greatest writings of African-Americans. The book has individual articles on 148 titles from every genre - novels, essays, plays & poems, including Frederick Douglass' slave narrative, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Richard Wright's Native Son, Ntozake Shange's for Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, & the poetry of Amiri Baraka. Each article contains the all important facts & dates of authorship along with analyses of characters, settings, themes, & plots. The only reference of its kind, masterpieces of African-American literature is an important guide to African-American history & culture as portrayed through literature. Frank N. Magill is the editor of masterpieces of world philosophy, & masterpieces of world literature. A panel of distinguished scholars contributed the bulk of the articles. This companion volume to Masterpieces of World Literature (1989) highlights the literary achievements of African-American authors from the 18th century to the present with individual articles on 149 major works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Each article contains the important facts and dates of authorship along with analyses of characters, settings, themes, and plots.
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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 S terling 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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