Black Voices An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

by Chapman, Abraham

• ISBN13: 9780451626608
• ISBN10: 0451626605
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1968-09-01
• Publisher: Signet

Summary

This collection by black Americans contains all sorts of writing-fiction, poetry, criticism, and biography.

Table of Contents

Introduction	21	(29)
I. FICTION
Charles W. Chesnutt	50	(13)
Baxter's Procrustes	52	(11)
Jean Toomer	63	(10)
Karintha	64	(2)
Blood-Burning Moon	66	(7)
Rudolph Fisher	73	(14)
Common Meter	74	(13)
Arna Bontemps	87	(9)
A Summer Tragedy	88	(8)
Langston Hughes	96	(17)
Tales of Simple	97	(16)
Foreword: Who Is Simple?	97	(2)
Feet Live Their Own Life	99	(2)
Temptation	101	(2)
Bop	103	(2)
Census	105	(1)
Coffee Break	106	(2)
Cracker Prayer	108	(2)
Promulgations	110	(3)
Richard Wright	113	(48)
The Man Who Lived Underground	114	(47)
Ann Petry	161	(31)
In Darkness and Confusion	161	(31)
Ralph Ellison	192	(9)
Invisible Man (Prologue)	192	(9)
Frank London Brown	201	(3)
McDougal	202	(2)
Paule Marshall	204	(11)
To Da-duh, In Memoriam	205	(10)
Diane Oliver	215	(16)
Neighbors	215	(16)
II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Frederick Douglass	231	(38)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Chapters 1, 6, 7, and 10)	232	(37)
James Weldon Johnson	269	(19)
Along This Way (Selected Episodes)	270	(18)
Richard Wright	288	(11)
The Ethics of Living Jim Crow	288	(11)
J. Saunders Redding	299	(17)
No Day of Triumph (Chapter 1: Sections 1, 5, and 7)	300	(16)
James Baldwin	316	(5)
Autobiographical Notes	316	(5)
Arna Bontemps	321	(11)
Why I Returned	321	(11)
Malcolm X	332	(15)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Chapter 1)	333	(14)
Stanley Sanders	347	(7)
``I'll Never Escape the Ghetto''	347	(7)
III. POETRY
Paul Laurence Dunbar	354	(4)
We Wear the Mask	355	(1)
A Death Song	356	(1)
Sympathy	356	(1)
A Negro Love Song	357	(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois	358	(6)
The Song of the Smoke	359	(1)
A Litany at Atlanta	360	(4)
James Weldon Johnson	364	(2)
The Creation	364	(2)
Fenton Johnson	366	(5)
The Daily Grind	367	(1)
The World Is a Mighty Ogre	368	(1)
A Negro Peddler's Song	368	(1)
The Old Repair Man	369	(1)
Rulers	369	(1)
The Scarlet Woman	370	(1)
Tired	370	(1)
Aunt Jane Allen	371	(1)
Claude McKay	371	(4)
Baptism	372	(1)
If We Must Die	372	(1)
Outcast	373	(1)
The Negro's Tragedy	373	(1)
America	374	(1)
The White City	374	(1)
The White House	375	(1)
Jean Toomer	375	(6)
Harvest Song	376	(1)
Song of the Son	377	(1)
Cotton Song	377	(1)
Brown River, Smile	378	(3)
Countee Cullen	381	(5)
Yet Do I Marvel	383	(1)
A Song of Praise	383	(1)
A Brown Girl Dead	384	(1)
From the Dark Tower	384	(1)
Incident	384	(1)
Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song	385	(1)
Three Epitaphs:	386	(1)
For My Grandmother	386	(1)
For Paul Laurence Dunbar	386	(1)
For A Lady I Know	386	(1)
Melvin B. Tolson	386	(15)
An Ex-Judge at the Bar	387	(1)
Dark Symphony	388	(4)
Psi	392	(9)
Frank Horne	401	(2)
Kid Stuff	401	(1)
Nigger: A Chant for Children	402	(1)
Sterling A. Brown	403	(18)
Sister Lou	404	(1)
Memphis Blues	405	(2)
Slim in Hell	407	(3)
Remembering Nat Turner	410	(2)
Southern Road	412	(1)
Southern Cop	413	(1)
The Young Ones	413	(1)
The Ballad of Joe Meek	414	(5)
Strong Men	419	(2)
Arna Bontemps	421	(4)
A Note of Humility	421	(1)
Gethsemane	421	(1)
Southern Mansion	422	(1)
My Heart Has Known Its Winter	422	(1)
Nocturne At Bethesda	422	(2)
A Black Man Talks of Reaping	424	(1)
The Day-Breakers	424	(1)
Langston Hughes	425	(8)
Afro-American Fragment	425	(1)
As I Grew Older	426	(1)
Dream Variations	427	(1)
Daybreak In Alabama	427	(1)
Dream Boogie	428	(1)
Children's Rhymes	428	(1)
Theme for English B	429	(1)
Harlem	430	(1)
Same In Blues	431	(1)
Ballad of the Landlord	432	(1)
Frank Marshall Davis	433	(3)
Four Glimpses of Night	433	(1)
I Sing No New Songs	434	(1)
Robert Whitmore	435	(1)
Flowers of Darkness	435	(1)
Richard Wright	436	(2)
Between the World and Me	437	(1)
Robert Hayden	438	(12)
Tour 5	439	(1)
On the Coast of Maine	439	(1)
Figure	440	(1)
In Light Half Nightmare and Half Vision	441	(1)
Market	442	(1)
Homage to the Empress of the Blues	443	(1)
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday	443	(1)
Middle Passage	444	(5)
Frederick Douglass	449	(1)
Owen Dodson	450	(8)
Guitar	450	(1)
Black Mother Praying	451	(3)
Drunken Lover	454	(1)
The Reunion	454	(1)
Jonathan's Song	455	(1)
Yardbird's Skull	456	(1)
Sailors on Leave	457	(1)
Margaret Walker	458	(2)
For My People	459	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks	460	(8)
The Artist's and Models' Ball	461	(1)
The Mother	461	(1)
The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon	462	(1)
The Children of the Poor	463	(2)
We Real Cool	465	(1)
The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock	466	(2)
Dudley Randall	468	(3)
The Southern Road	468	(1)
Legacy: My South	469	(1)
Booker T. and W. E. B.	470	(1)
The Idiot	471	(1)
Lerone Bennett, Jr.	471	(2)
Blues and Bitterness	472	(1)
Lance Jeffers	473	(2)
The Night Rains Hot Tar	473	(1)
On Listening to the Spirituals	474	(1)
Grief Streams Down My Chest	474	(1)
The Unknown	475	(1)
Naomi Long Madgett	475	(3)
Native	476	(1)
Her Story	476	(1)
The Race Question	477	(1)
Mari Evans	478	(4)
Coventry	478	(1)
Status Symbol	479	(1)
The Emancipation of George-Hector (a colored turtle)	480	(1)
My Man Let Me Pull Your Coat	480	(1)
Black Jam for Dr. Negro	481	(1)
Leroi Jones	482	(11)
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note	483	(1)
The Invention of Comics	484	(1)
Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today	485	(3)
The Death of Nick Charles	488	(3)
The Bridge	491	(2)
IV. LITERARY CRITICISM
W. E. B. Du Bois	493	(19)
The Souls of Black Folk (Chapters 1 and 14)	494	(18)
Alain Locke	512	(26)
The New Negro	512	(11)
The Negro In American Culture	523	(15)
Richard Wright	538	(26)
How ``Bigger'' Was Born	538	(26)
Sterling A. Brown	564	(26)
A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature	564	(26)
James Baldwin	590	(15)
Many Thousands Gone	590	(15)
Three Papers from the First Conference of Negro Writers (March, 1959)	605	(1)
Arthur P. Davis	605	(7)
Integration and Race Literature	606	(6)
J. Saunders Redding	612	(6)
The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots	612	(6)
Langston Hughes	618	(4)
Writers: Black and White	618	(4)
Blyden Jackson	622	(9)
The Negro's Image of the Universe as Reflected in His Fiction	623	(8)
John Henrik Clarke	631	(14)
The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature	632	(13)
Richard G. Stern	645	(15)
That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure: An Interview with Ralph Ellison	645	(15)
Dan Georgakas	660	(9)
James Baldwin ... in Conversation	660	(9)
Sterling Stuckey	669	(8)
Frank London Brown	669	(8)
Darwin T. Turner	677	(13)
The Negro Dramatist's Image of the Universe, 1920-1960	677	(13)
George E. Kent	690	(8)
Ethnic Impact in American Literature	691	(7)
Clarence Major	698	(2)
Black Criterion	698	(2)
Bibliography	700