African American Literature (Penguin Academics Series)

by Gilyard, Keith; Wardi, Anissa

• ISBN13: 9780321113412
• ISBN10: 0321113411
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-21
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

African-American Literatureis thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature.The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African American literature. The thematic approach gives readers a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.Those interested in African-American literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxi
The Middle Passage, Mourning, and Survival	1	(116)
Further Reading	5	(1)
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
from The Interesting Narrative	6	(14)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
``Middle Passage''	20	(5)
Henry Dumas (1934-1968)
``Ark of Bones''	25	(12)
Toni Morrison (1931-)
from Beloved	37	(4)
Charles Johnson (1948-)
from Middle Passage	41	(4)
August Wilson (1945-)
from Joe Turner's Come and Gone	45	(4)
Everett Hoagland (1942-)
``Homecoming''	49	(3)
``Goree''	52	(4)
``Dust''	56	(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
from The Souls of Black Folk	57	(5)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
``A Death Song''	62	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
``A Brown Girl Dead''	63	(1)
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
from Black Thunder	64	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
from Their Eyes Were Watching God	72	(7)
Alice Walker (1944-)
from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	79	(17)
``Burial''	96	(3)
``View from Rosehill Cemetery''	99	(1)
Ernest Gaines (1933-)
from A Gathering of Old Men	100	(7)
Julie Dash (1952-)
from Daughters of the Dust	107	(9)
Writing Assignments	116	(1)
The Influence of the Spirituals	117	(120)
Further Reading	121	(1)
Anonymous
``God's Going to Trouble the Water''	122	(1)
Anonymous
``Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?''	122	(3)
Anonymous
``Swing Low, Sweet Chariot''	125	(1)
Anonymous
``Steal Away to Jesus''	126	(1)
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806)
``An Evening Thought''	127	(3)
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
``On Being Brought from Africa to America''	130	(1)
``Letter to Samson Occum''	130	(1)
Anonymous
``Go Down, Moses''	131	(5)
Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)
from ``Moses: A Story of the Nile''	136	(23)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
``An Ante-Bellum Sermon''	159	(2)
Anonymous
``God's Gonna Set This World on Fire''	161	(1)
Anonymous
``Dry Bones''	162	(1)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
``O Black and Unknown Bards''	163	(1)
``The Judgment Day''	164	(3)
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
``Runagate Runagate''	167	(3)
Lauryn Hill (1975-)
``Final Hour''	170	(1)
Anonymous
``Walk Together Children''	171	(2)
John Oliver Killens (1916-1987)
from Youngblood	173	(31)
William Melvin Kelley (1937-)
from A Different Drummer	204	(18)
Amiri Baraka (1934-)
``When We'll Worship Jesus''	222	(3)
Carolyn Rodgers (1945-)
``Jesus Was Crucified''	225	(3)
``It Is Deep''	228	(1)
Anonymous
``There's No Hiding Place Down There''	229	(1)
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1997)
``People Get Ready''	230	(1)
Anonymous
``I've Been 'Buked''	231	(1)
James Brown (1933-)
``Say It Loud''	232	(1)
Charlie Braxton (1961-)
``Apocalypse''	233	(1)
Nicole Breedlove (1970-)
``The New Miz Praise De Lawd''	234	(1)
Writing Assignments	235	(2)
The South as Literary Landscape	237	(94)
Further Reading	240	(1)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave, Written by Himself	241	(19)
Margaret Walker (1915-1988)
``Southern Song''	260	(1)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
from Cane	261	(11)
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
``Big Boy Leaves Home''	272	(34)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
from Their Eyes Were Watching God	306	(5)
Gloria Naylor (1950-)
from Mama Day	311	(8)
Maya Angelou (1928-)
from Gather Together in My Name	319	(8)
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
``Strange Fruit''	327	(1)
Arrested Development
``Tennessee''	328	(2)
Writing Assignments	330	(1)
Folklore and Literature	331	(120)
Further Reading	335	(1)
Anonymous
``The Signifying Monkey''	336	(2)
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
``Goophered Grapevine''	338	(12)
``Po' Sandy''	350	(9)
Anonymous
``Railroad Bill''	359	(1)
Ishmael Reed (1938-)
``Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man''	360	(6)
from Flight to Canada	366	(8)
Anonymous
``Stagolee''	374	(1)
Anonymous
``The Sinking of the Titanic''	375	(2)
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
``I Sing of Shine''	377	(1)
Anonymous
``John Henry''	378	(4)
Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)
``The Birth of John Henry''	382	(1)
Colson Whitehead (1969-)
from John Henry Days	383	(6)
Ntozake Shange (1948-)
from Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo	389	(39)
Tina McElroy Ansa (1949-)
from Baby of the Family	428	(21)
Writing Assignments	449	(2)
Expressions of Blues and Jazz	451	(110)
Further Reading	454	(1)
W. C. Handy (1873-1958)
``St. Louis Blues''	455	(2)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937)
``Backwater Blues''	457	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
``The Weary Blues''	458	(1)
``Midwinter Blues''	459	(1)
``Ma Man''	460	(1)
``Wide River''	460	(1)
``Flatted Fifths''	461	(1)
``Jam Session''	462	(1)
``The Backlash Blues''	462	(1)
Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
``See, See Rider''	463	(1)
``Sissy Blues''	464	(1)
``Prove It on Me Blues''	464	(2)
Sterling Brown (1901-1989)
``Ma Rainey''	466	(1)
``New St. Louis Blues''	467	(3)
Quincy Troupe (1939-)
``River Town Packin House Blues''	470	(3)
Mari Evans
``Liberation Blues''	473	(1)
``Lee Morgan''	474	(2)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
``Sonny's Blues''	476	(29)
Ted Joans (1928-2003)
``Jazz Is''	505	(1)
``Jazz Is My Religion''	506	(1)
``Him the Bird''	506	(2)
Bob Kaufmann (1925-1986)
``His Horn''	508	(1)
``O-Jazz-O''	508	(1)
Amiri Baraka (1934-)
``Am/Trak''	509	(6)
Sonia Sanchez (1934-)
``a/coltrane/poem''	515	(3)
Jayne Cortez (1936-)
``Into This Time''	518	(3)
``Solo Finger Solo''	521	(1)
Xam Wilson Cartier (1949-)
from Be-Bop, Re-Bop	522	(12)
Sterling Plumpp (1940-)
``Law Giver in the Wilderness''	534	(3)
``Ornate with Smoke''	537	(5)
``Riffs''	542	(2)
``My History''	544	(4)
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-)
``Elegy for Thelonius''	548	(1)
``February in Sydney''	549	(1)
Angela Jackson (1951-)
``Billie in Silk''	550	(2)
``Make/n My Music''	552	(1)
Brian Gilmore (1962-)
``d.c.-harlem suite''	553	(7)
Writing Assignments	560	(1)
Stories of Migration	561	(134)
Further Reading	565	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
from The Sport of the Gods	566	(91)
Ma Rainey (1886-1939)
``Traveling Blues''	657	(1)
Bessie Smith (1894-1937) and Clara Smith (1894-1935)
``Faraway Blues''	658	(1)
Alain Locke (1886-1954)
``The New Negro''	659	(11)
Toni Morrison (1931-)
from Jazz	670	(5)
Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
from Invisible Man	675	(10)
Arthur Flowers (1950-)
from Another Good Loving Blues	685	(7)
Writing Assignments	692	(3)
Urban Landscapes	695	(100)
Further Reading	698	(1)
Nathan McCall (1955-)
from Makes Me Wanna Holler	699	(15)
John Edgar Wideman (1941-)
from Brothers and Keepers	714	(9)
Eugene B. Redmond (1937-)
``City Night Storm''	723	(1)
``We're Tight, Soul-Tight---Like Lincolnites''	724	(4)
``Indigenous Daughter Awake in the Dreams of Nana''	728	(1)
``Choreo-Empress' Leg-a-cy Lands on East Saint Earth, 2nd Take''	729	(2)
``Wishing...''	731	(1)
Terry McMillan (1951-)
from Mama	732	(8)
Rita Dove (1952-)
``The Zulus''	740	(3)
``Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967''	743	(2)
``My Mother Enters the Work Force''	745	(1)
Wanda Coleman (1946-)
``Fast Eddie''	746	(1)
``Flight of the California Condor (2)''	747	(2)
``Dominoes''	749	(1)
``Low English''	750	(1)
``Sears Life''	751	(1)
``South Central Los Angeles Deathtrip 1982''	752	(5)
Lamont B. Steptoe (1949-)
``Window Shopping''	757	(1)
``Kennywood''	758	(1)
``Three Legged Chairs''	759	(1)
``Spooked''	759	(1)
``Seamstress''	760	(1)
``A Ghosted Blues''	761	(1)
Mursalata Muhammad (1969-)
``Detroit''	762	(1)
``Street Play''	763	(1)
``Women at the House of Braids Discuss Flo Jo''	764	(2)
Keith Gilyard (1952-)
``The Hatmaker''	766	(4)
``Anyone Heard from Manuel?''	770	(11)
Walter Mosley (1952-)
``The Thief''	781	(13)
Writing Assignments	794	(1)
A Strand of Social Protest	795	(136)
Further Reading	798	(1)
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
from Native Son	799	(16)
Chester Himes (1909-1984)
from If He Hollers Let Him Go	815	(10)
Ann Petry (1908-1997)
from The Street	825	(14)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
``Tell Me''	839	(1)
``Harlem [2]''	839	(1)
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
A Raisin in the Sun	840	(88)
Writing Assignments	928	(3)
Jeremiads	931	(106)
Further Reading	936	(1)
David Walker (1785-1830)
Article III of the Appeal	937	(8)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
``The Blood of the Slave on the Skirts of the Northern People''	945	(4)
``Emancipation, Racism, and the Work Before Us''	949	(11)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
``Speech at the Atlanta Exposition''	960	(3)
from The Future of the American Negro	963	(14)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
from A Red Record	977	(4)
from Mob Rule in New Orleans	981	(2)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
``The Niagara Movement''	983	(3)
``Awake America''	986	(1)
from The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois	987	(6)
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
``Certain Unalienable Rights''	993	(10)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
``Speech at Holt Street Baptist Church''	1003	(4)
``I Have a Dream''	1007	(4)
from Where Do We Go From Here?	1011	(6)
Cornel West (1953-)
``Beyond Multiculturalism & Eurocentrism''	1017	(14)
``A Twilight Civilization''	1031	(3)
Writing Assignments	1034	(3)
Discourses of Black Nationalism	1037	(104)
Further Reading	1041	(1)
David Walker (1785-1830)
Preamble plus Articles I and II of the Appeal	1041	(28)
Maria Stewart (1803-1879)
``Address at the African Masonic Hall''	1069	(7)
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)
``A Glance at Ourselves''	1076	(7)
``A Project for an Expedition of Adventure, to the Eastern Coast of Africa''	1083	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
``The Conservation of Races''	1087	(11)
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
``Africa for the Africans''	1098	(4)
``The Future as I See It''	1102	(5)
``First Speech after Release from Tombs Prison Delivered at Liberty Hall, New York City, September 13, 1923''	1107	(5)
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
``The Black Revolution''	1112	(6)
``The Ballot or the Bullet''	1118	(18)
Haki Madhubuti (1942-)
``Standing as an African Man''	1136	(3)
Writing Assignments	1139	(2)
Statements of Feminism	1141	(108)
Further Reading	1146	(1)
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
``Speech Delivered to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio'' (Campbell and Gage versions)	1147	(3)
``Speech Delivered to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association''	1150	(2)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
``Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886)''	1152	(19)
Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1907)
``The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman''	1171	(6)
Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966)
``The Heart of a Woman''	1177	(1)
``My Little Dreams''	1178	(1)
``Free''	1178	(5)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
from Maud Martha	1183	(8)
June Jordan (1936-2002)
``A Song of Sojourner Truth''	1191	(2)
``Where Is the Love?''	1193	(6)
``A New Politics of Sexuality''	1199	(5)
``Report from the Bahamas''	1204	(10)
Alice Walker (1944-)
from The Color Purple	1214	(11)
``A Name Is Sometimes an Ancestor Saying Hi, I'm With You''	1225	(1)
Bell Hooks (1952-)
``Feminism: It's a Black Thing''	1226	(9)
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
``The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House''	1235	(3)
Joan Morgan (1965-)
``the f-word''	1238	(9)
Writing Assignments	1247	(2)
The Black Aesthetic	1249	(82)
Further Reading	1253	(1)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
``My People''	1253	(1)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
``Heritage''	1254	(3)
``From the Dark Tower''	1257	(1)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
``If We Must Die''	1258	(1)
``Enslaved''	1259	(1)
``Outcast''	1259	(1)
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
``Poem''	1260	(1)
``Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem''	1261	(1)
Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
``For My People''	1262	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
``The Mother''	1263	(2)
``Malcolm X''	1265	(1)
Quincy Troupe (1939-)
``Old Black Ladies Standing on Bus Stop Corners #2''	1265	(3)
Amiri Baraka (1934-)
``A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand''	1268	(1)
``Black Art''	1269	(1)
``A Poem for Black Hearts''	1270	(2)
John A. Williams (1925-)
from The Man Who Cried I Am	1272	(4)
Haki Madhubuti (1942-)
``Back Again, Home''	1276	(1)
``We Walk the Way of the New World''	1277	(3)
Nikki Giovanni (1943-)
``Black Power''	1280	(1)
``Poem for Black Boys''	1280	(1)
``The Great Pax Whitie''	1281	(3)
Larry Neal (1937-1981)
``Black Writing''	1284	(1)
``One Spark Can Light a Prairie Fire''	1285	(2)
Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979)
``Black Man's Feast''	1287	(1)
``Evil Is No Black Thing''	1288	(2)
``Tripping with Black Writing''	1290	(8)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
``The Lesson''	1298	(7)
Sonia Sanchez (1934-)
``Listenen to Big Black at S.F. State''	1305	(1)
``This Is Not a Small Voice''	1306	(1)
``From a Black Feminist Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet''	1307	(2)
``Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara''	1309	(3)
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-)
``The Revolution Will Not Be Televised''	1312	(2)
Derrick I. M. Gilbert (1970-)
``The Revolution Will Be on the Big Screen''	1314	(2)
``Reparation''	1316	(4)
``Why I Would Never Buy a Jeep Cherokee''	1320	(3)
Tony Medina (1966-)
``Doorway Dirge''	1323	(1)
``The Movie I Would Make''	1324	(1)
``This Week's Ebony/Jet Showcase's Top Ten Hip Hop Video Singles''	1325	(1)
``Taxes''	1325	(2)
Kenneth Carroll (1959-)
``On Watching the Republican Convention''	1327	(1)
``So What!''	1327	(3)
Writing Assignments	1330	(1)
Select Chronology of African American Literature	1331	(6)
Credits	1337	(10)
Index	1347