The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 : 1920 to the Present

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature
Copright
Table of Contents (by Chronology)
Editorial Advisory Board
Preface
Introduction
Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents (by Genre)
Part One The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c .1920–1940
Introduction
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
From Songs of Jamaica (1912)
Whe’ fe Do?
Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture
From Harlem Shadows (1922)
America
The Tropics in New York
Harlem Shadows
The White City
Africa
The Tired Worker
If We Must Die
Extracts from Banjo: A Story without a Plot (1929)
Chapter 1: The Ditch
Chapter 2: The Breakwater
Chapter 3: Malty Turned Down
Chapter 16: The “Blue Cinema”
Chapter 17: Breaking-up
Chapter 23: Shake That Thing Again
Chapter 25: Banjo’s Ace of Spades
Jessie Fauset (1882–1961)
Double Trouble (1923)
Dark Algiers the White (1925)
Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
Extract from Cane (1923)
Bona and Paul
Balo (1924, 1927)
Winter on Earth (1928)
Race Problems in Modern Society (1929)
Countée Cullen (1903–1946)
From Color (1925)
Yet Do I Marvel
Tableau
Incident
Heritage
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time
I Have a Rendezvous with Life
From Caroling Dusk (1927)
Four Epitaphs
From Copper Sun (1927)
Millennial
At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
From the Dark Tower
Uncle Jim
From The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929)
To Certain Critics
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
Extract from The New Negro (1925)
The Negro Mind Reaches Out
Criteria of Negro Art (1926)
Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934)
The City of Refuge (1925)
Blades of Steel (1927)
The Caucasian Storms Harlem (1927)
Helene Johnson (1906–1995)
[Selected Poems] (1925–1929)
My Race
The Road
Magula
A Southern Road
Bottled
Poem
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
Summer Matures
Invocation
Remember Not
Alain Locke (1885–1954)
Extract from The New Negro (1925)
The New Negro
Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)
From The Weary Blues (1926)
The Weary Blues
Jazzonia
Harlem Night Club
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Danse Africaine
Epilogue [I, Too, Sing America]
From Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Dream Boogie
Juke Box Love Song
Ballad of the Landlord
George S. Schuyler (1895–1977)
The Negro-Art Hokum (1926)
Extracts from Black No More; Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933–1940 (1931)
Chapters 1–3
Dorothy West (1907–1998)
The Typewriter (1926)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
The Back Room (1927)
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Nella Larsen (1891–1964)
Passing (1929)
Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989)
From Southern Road (1932)
From “Part One: Road So Rocky”
Odyssey of Big Boy
When de Saints Go Ma’ching Home
Southern Road
From “Part Two: On Restless River”
Memphis Blues
Ma Rainey
From “Part Three: Tin Roof Blues”
Tin Roof Blues
Cabaret
From “Part Four: Vestiges”
Salutamus
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Extract from Uncle Tom’s Children (1938)
Big Boy Leaves Home (1936)
Blueprint for Negro Writing (1937)
How “Bigger” Was Born (1940)
Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940–1965
Introduction
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
From A Street in Bronzeville (1945)
A Street in Bronzeville (full section)
From Annie Allen (1949)
Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood
The Anniad
The Womanhood
Robert Hayden (1913–1980)
From Ballad of Remembrance (1962)
Middle Passage (1945)
The Ballad of Nat Turner
Chester Himes (1909–1984)
A Night of New Roses (1945)
Da-Da-Dee (1948)
Tang (1967)
Ann Petry (1908–1997)
The Bones of Louella Brown (1947)
In Darkness and Confusion (1947)
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
Extracts from Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Everybody’s Protest Novel (1949)
Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Extract from Going to Meet the Man (1965
Sonny’s Blues (1957)
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)
Extracts from Invisible Man (1952)
Prologue, Chapters 1–4, 6, 9
Extract from Shadow and Act (1964)
Hidden Name and Complex Fat
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
Willie Loman, Walter Younger, and He Who Must Live (1959)
Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965–1975
Introduction
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
Extract from Home: Social Essays (1965)
The Myth of a “Negro Literature” (1963)
From The Dead Lecturer (1964)
Crow Jane
I Substitute for the Dead Lecturer
Political Poem
Dutchman (1964)
Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931)
Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964)
Larry Neal (1937–1981)
Extract from Black Fire (1968)
And Shine Swam On
Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
From Good Times (1969)
[in the inner city]
[My Mama moved among the days]
[My daddy’s fingers move among the couplers]
The white boy
Ca’line’s prayer
Generations
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)
From Dear John, Dear Coltrane (1970)
Brother John
Where is My Woman Now: For Billie Holiday
Malcolm’s Blues
Dirge for Trane
American History
Deathwatch
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934)
Extract from A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman (1974)
Part One: Introduction (Queens of the Universe) (1970)
Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)
Extract from Gorilla, My Love (1972)
My Man Bovanne (1971)
June Jordan (1936–2002)
From Some Changes (1971)
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
If You Saw a Negro Lady
And Who Are You?
Toward a Personal Semantics
What Would I Do White?
No Train of Thought
I Celebrate the Sons of Malcolm
Last Poem for a Little While
From New Days: Poems of Exile and Return (1974)
On the Black Poet Reading His Poems in the Park
On the Black Family
Calling on All Silent Minorities
No Poem Because Time Is Not a Name
Extract from On Call: Political Essays (1985)
The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley
Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present
Introduction
Samuel Delany (b. 1942)
Extract from Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories (2003)
Omegahelm (1973)
Ntozake Shange (b. 1948)
Extract from for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf (1975)
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Extracts from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (1983)
Looking for Zora (1975)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View (1977)
Extract from The Color Purple (1982)
[Celie Discovers Nettie’s Missing Letters]
Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Extracts from Sister Outsider (1984)
Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1977)
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
From The Black Unicorn (1978)
The Black Unicorn
Coniagui Women
For Assata
In Margaret’s Garden
Woman
But What Can You Teach My Daughter
Sister Outsider
Octavia Butler (1947–2006)
Extracts from Kindred (1979)
Prologue
The River
The Fire
Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)
Extracts from The Women of Brewster Place (1982)
Dawn
The Block Party
Dusk
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
Recitatif (1983)
Rita Dove (b. 1952)
Thomas and Beulah (1986)
August Wilson (1945–2005)
Fences (1986)
Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)
Extract from Lucy (1990)
Poor Visitor
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933)
Extract from A Lesson Before Dying (1993)
Chapters 27–31
Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963)
Extract from The America Play and Other Works (1994)
An Equation for Black People Onstage
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969)
Extract from Krik? Krak! (1996)
New York Day Women
Walter Mosley (b. 1952)
Black to The Future (1998)
Extract from Futureland (2001)
The Nig in Me
Percival Everett (b. 1956)
Extract from Damned If I Do (2004)
The Fix (1999)
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)
Extract from God’s Gym (2005)
Weight (1999)
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953)
From Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)
All She Wrote
The Anthropic Principle
Bleeding Hearts
Daisy Pearl
Denigration
Dim Lady
Ectopia
Exploring the Dark Content
Music for Homemade Instruments
Natural Anguish
Resistance Is Fertile
Sleeping with the Dictionary
We Are Not Responsible
Edward P. Jones (b. 1950)
Extract from The Known World (2003)
Chapter 1
Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948)
The End of the Black American Narrative (2008)
Glossary
Timeline
Name Index
Subject Index