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Black literature: essays / edited by Darwin T. Turner Professor English & Dean of the Graduate School North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
LIBRA - Rare PS683.N4 T8 1969 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Darwin T., 1931-1991, compiler.
- Series:
- Charles E. Merrill program in American literature.
- Charles E. Merrill program in American literature. Charles E. Merrill literary texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--African American authors.
- American essays.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- African American authors.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Black American literature.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus, Ohio, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, a Bell & Howell Company. 1969.
- Contents:
- Letter XI / William Wells Brown
- A letter to Mrs. Stowe / Frederick Douglass
- The Negro race not under a curse / Alexander Crummell
- Negro life in Washington / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Of the passing of the first born of Alexander Crummell / W. E. B. DuBois
- Frederick Douglass / Kelly Miller
- Detroit / James Weldon Johnson
- Fooling our white folks / Langston Hughes
- What the Negro thinks of the South / George S. Schuyler
- American Negro literature / Saunders Redding
- On becoming a writer / Ralph W. Ellison
- The discovery of what it means to be an American / James Baldwin
- The black psyche / John O. Killens
- City of Harlem and Cold, hurt, and sorrow (streets of despair) / LeRoi Jones
- The white race and its heroes / Eldridge Cleaver.
- Notes:
- Cover title: Black American literature : essays.
- "This volume presents authoritative texts for all material. The selections are reprinted from their original appearances as specified in each case."--Textual Note.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has stamp "D. C. Public School Urban Teacher Corps".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Turner, Darwin T., 1931-1991. Black literature: essays.
- ISBN:
- 0675095034
- 9780675095037
- OCLC:
- 6772
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