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The essential Black literature guide / Roger M. Valade III.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reading Room REF Z 1039 .B56 V35 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valade, Roger M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Black authors--Bio-bibliography.
- Literature.
- Authors, Black--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Authors, Black.
- Black people in literature--Bibliography.
- Black people in literature.
- Literature--Black authors.
- Genre:
- dictionaries.
- bibliographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliographies.
- Bio-bibliography.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Black literature guide
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Visible Ink Press, ©1996.
- Summary:
- Significant works of all time periods and genres are represented, from Phyllis Wheatley's 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral to William Wells Brown's 1845 Clotel, the first novel by an African American, to Spike Lee's contemporary screenplay, Malcolm X.
- Notes:
- "Published in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture."
- Abridged version of: The Schomburg Center Guide to black literature from the eighteenth century to the present / Roger M. Valade III.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-411) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0787607347
- 9780787607340
- 1578590558
- 9781578590551
- OCLC:
- 32925038
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