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Chant of saints : a gathering of Afro-American literature, art, and scholarship / edited by Michael S. Harper and Robert B. Stepto.
LIBRA - Rare PS508.N3 C49 1979 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African American arts.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 486 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- A Son's Return: "Oh, Didn't He Ramble" / by Sterling A. Brown
- "Uplift from a Dark Tower" and Other Poems / by Michael S. Harper
- The Historical Frequencies of Ralph Waldo Ellison / by John F. Callahan
- Paintings / by Richard Yarde
- Elegies for Paradise Valley / by Robert Hayden
- Covenant of Timelessness and Time: Symbolism and History in Robert Hayden's Angle of Ascent / by Wilburn Williams, Jr.
- Sculpture / by Richard Hunt
- A Sense of Story / by James Alan McPherson
- A Music of the Streets / by Frederick Turner
- Someone Sweet Angel Child / by Sherley A. Williams
- The Blues Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry / by Sherley A. Williams
- Packwood's Sermon by Firelight / by Leon Forrest
- "If He Changed My Name": An Interview with Leon Forrest
- The Art of Romare Bearden / by Ralph Ellison
- The Odysseus Collages / by Romare Bearden
- The Schooner Flight / by Derek Walcott
- Toward a World Black Literature and Community / by Melvin Dixon
- I Thought I Knew These People: Richard Wright and the Afro-American Literary Tradition / by Robert B. Stepto
- From Sula / by Toni Morrison
- "Intimate Things in Place": A Conversation with Toni Morrison
- Siras Bowens of Sunbury, Georgia: A Tidewater Artist in the Afro-American Visual Tradition / by Robert Farris Thompson.
- Africa, Slavery, and the Roots of Contemporary Black Culture / by Mary F. Berry and John W. Blassingame
- Shadows in the Moonlight / by John Stewart
- Photographs / by Lawrence Sykes
- The Star-Apple Kingdom / by Derek Walcott
- Reflections before and after Carnival: An Interview with Derek Walcott
- The Militance of a Photograph in the Passbook of a Bantu under Detention / by Michael S. Harper
- An Image of Africa / by Chinua Achebe
- Poems / by Robert Hayden
- Four Poems / by Michael S. Harper
- In My Father's House / by Ernest J. Gaines
- Almeyda / by Gayl Jones
- Gayl Jones: An Interview
- Deep Song / by Gayl Jones
- Looking for Zora / by Alice Walker
- Love's Dozen / by Jay Wright
- Three Poems / by Michael S. Harper
- Late Coltrane: A Re-membering of Orpheus / by Kimberly W. Benston
- From Experience to Eloquence: Richard Wright's Black Boy as Art / by Charles T. Davis
- Duke Ellington Vamps 'til Ready / by Albert Murray
- Backwacking, A Plea to the Senator / by Ralph Ellison
- Study and Experience: An Interview with Ralph Ellison
- After Modernism, After Hibernation: Michael Harper, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright / by Robert B. Stepto
- American Journal / by Robert Hayden.
- Notes:
- Cover illustration from a collage by Romare Bearden.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paper back "Illini Book" edition
- ISBN:
- 0252007123
- OCLC:
- 5579545
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