Dark Eros / edited and annotated by Reginald Martin, M.F.A., Ph.D. with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and an afterword by Lenard D. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Reginald, 1956- editor.

Reed, Ishmael, 1938- writer of foreword.

Moore, Lenard D., 1958- writer of afterword.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic literature, American--African American authors.

Erotic literature, American.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

African Americans--Sexual behavior.

African American authors.

African Americans--Sexual behavior--Literary collections.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 397 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First St. Martin's Griffin edition.

Other Title:

Dark Eros : Black erotic writings

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.

Summary:

A compelling collection of erotic writings by many of the finest African-American writers--assembled by the coeditor of the bestselling anthology, "Erotique Noire".

Contents:

Foreword / Ishmael Reed

Introduction: Dark Eros and the Erotic Essence / Reginald Martin, M.F.A., Ph.D.

Phase 1: Sensuous Skyline

Phase 2: Gettin My Freak On

Phaae 3: Situation #9

Phase 4: Vulvous Evenings

Phase 5: The Real Truth on That

Phase 6: The Jimmy Hat and All That

Phase 7: Erotic Abstractions

Afterword: New Tales, New Blackness: Constructing the Whole Self Through Eroticism / Lenard D. Moore.

Notes:

Cover design by Mary Ann Smith. Cover painting © Faith Ringgold Inc.

Originally published New York: St. Martin's, 1997.

Section half-titles are illustrated.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0312198507

9780312198503

OCLC:

42891923