Sweet words so brave : the story of African American literature / written by Barbara K. Curry and James Michael Brodie ; illustrated by Jerry Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curry, Barbara K.

Contributor:

Brodie, James Michael, 1957-

Butler, Jerry, 1947- illustrator.

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

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature--Juvenile literature.

African Americans in literature.

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

African Americans--Intellectual life.

American literature--African American authors.

Genre:

Literature.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Story of African American Literature

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : Zino Press Children's Books, [©1996].

Summary:

A survey of the history of African American literature, from slave narratives to the present, told in the voice of a grandfather speaking to his granddaughter.

Contents:

To Read, To Write - To be Free

"We" - A People

To be Free Once More

Black and Proud

Rediscovering Outselves.

Notes:

"First Printing, December 1996."

"The title 'Sweet Words So Brave' is taken from the poem 'Sweet Words on Race,' published in 'The Panther and the Lash,' by Langston Hughes."

Writers mentioned include Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, Countee Culllen, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Olaudah Equiano, Nikki Giovanni, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Paule Marshall, Claude McKay, Toni Morrison, Gordon Parks, Paul Robeson, Sonia Sanchez, Jean Toomer, Alice Walker, Phillis Wheatley, and Richard Wright.

Includes bibliographical references (page 64).

ISBN:

1559331798

9781559331791

OCLC:

34772057