Negro : an anthology / collected and edited by Nancy Cunard ; edited and abridged with an introduction by Hugh Ford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965.

Ford, Hugh D., 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Black people.

African American arts.

African Americans--Poetry.

Black people--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 1996.

Summary:

Now in print after many years, this is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. First published in 1934, and mostly neglected in Cunard's own time, Negro has attained the status of a cult classic. The list of contributors -- represented in poetry, prose, translations, and music -- is a who's who of 20th-century literature and the arts: Louis Armstrong, Samuel Beckett, Norman Douglas, Nancy Cunard, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, William Plomer, Arthur Schomburg, William Carlos Williams, and more.

In its subject and international approach, Negro was generations ahead of its time. Its exploration of black achievement and black anger takes the reader from life in America to the West Indies, South America, Europe, and Africa. Though very much of its time, Negro is also timeless in its depiction of oppressive social and political conditions as well as in its homage to myriad contributions by black artists and thinkers.

Notes:

Previously published: New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1970.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826408621

OCLC:

34824323