This title profiles important African American writers in all genres. Fromslave narratives to abolitionist tracts, from the Harlem Renaissance ofthe 1920's to the Black Arts movement of the 1960's and 1970's, African American writers have always influenced literature in the UnitedStates. Its scope and coverage: Notable African American Writerscompiles 80 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, short-storywriters, and writers of nonfiction from colonial America to today.Students, librarians and teachers will find a comprehensive overview ofeach author's biography and literary career as well as ready-referencelistings of their major works in all genres.
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ISBN:9781642654899 (hardcover)
Physical Description:print 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:2nd ed.
Publisher:Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
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Ai -- Maya Angelou -- James Baaldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka -- Arna Wendell Bontemps -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sterling A. Brown -- Ed Bullins -- Octavia E. Butler -- Bebe Moore Campbell -- Barbara Chase Riboud -- Charles Waddell CChesnutt -- Alice Childress -- Lucille Clifton -- Ta nehisi Coates -- Teju Cole -- Countee Cullen -- Edwidge Danticat -- Samuel R. Delany -- Toi Derricotte -- Owen Dodson -- Frederick Douglass -- Rita Dove -- W E B Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Michael Eric Dyson -- Cornelius Eady -- Lonne Elder III -- Ralph Ellison -- Percival Evverett -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Charles Fuller -- Ernest J Gaines -- Henry Louis Gates Jr -- Roxane Gay -- Nikki Giovanni.
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