The Crisis reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine / Sondra Kathryn Wilson, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Sondra K., editor.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Modern Library Harlem renaissance

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

American literature--20th century.

Harlem Renaissance.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 422 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Library, 1999.

Summary:

A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays from "Crisis", the magazine that launched the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Contributors include Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps, E. Franklin Frazier, and Alain Locke.

Contents:

Editing The Crisis / W. E. B. Du Bois

Part One: Poetry

Part Two: Fiction

Part Three: Plays

Part Four: Essays. Personal Essays ; Literary and Cultural Essays ; Social Essays.

Notes:

Cover design: Leah Lococo. Art art: detail from the cover of The Crisis, May 1927, illustrated by Aaron Douglas.

Excerpts from the period 1918-1930.

Includes four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-422).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "1999 Modern Library Paperback Edition".

ISBN:

0375752315

OCLC:

39936841