A history of Afro-American literature / Blyden Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Blyden.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Reference works.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

volumes <1-> ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1989-

Summary:

The first comprehensive chronicle of Afro-American literature, this history will eventually comprise four volumes. Volume II will examine the Negro Nadir and the Harlem Renaissance, 1895-1930. Volume III will consider the works of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other novelists and poets of the period 1930-1965. Volume IV will treat those writers still in their prime--Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, and others.

Contents:

v. 1. The long beginning, 1746-1895. The age of apprenticeship. The first poets

The first writers of prose

More early writers of prose

George Moses Horton and David Walker

The age of the abolitionists I. Frederick Douglass, plus the early Black Press

Slave narratives, 1830-1860

Perpetuations and close relatives of the slave narrative

Antebellum black leaders

Early black historians

The age of the abolitionists, II. Early abolitionist poets

Later abolitionist poets

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Albery Allison Whitman

Early folk literature, largely prose

Early folk literature in verse

The first negro novelist

Frank J. Webb and Harriet E. Wilson

Black separatism enters the novel

A beginning ends.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 401-450) and index.

V. 1. The long beginning, 1746-1895.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0807115118

9780807115114

OCLC:

18560291