The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present.  Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium.  Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Editorial Advisory Board xv Preface xvi Introduction xxi Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920–1940 1 Introduction 3 Claude McKay (1889–1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882–1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894–1967) 77 Countée Cullen (1903–1946) 125 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) 137 Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) 164 Helene Johnson (1906–1995) 190 Alain Locke (1885–1954) 197 Langston Hughes (1902–1967) 207 George S. Schuyler (1895–1977) 219 Dorothy West (1907–1998) 244 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) 251 Nella Larsen (1891–1964) 261 Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989) 318 Richard Wright (1908–1960) 332 Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940–1965 385 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) 391 Robert Hayden (1913–1980) 418 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 426 Ann Petry (1908–1997) 441 James Baldwin (1924–1987) 472 Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) 512 Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) 599 Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965–1975 607 Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613 Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637 Larry Neal (1937–1981) 649 Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) 661 Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672 Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) 680 June Jordan (1936–2002) 686 Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709 Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715 Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725 Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733 Audre Lorde (1934–1992) 761 Octavia Butler (1947–2006) 778 Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820 Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835 August Wilson (1945–2005) 869 Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915 Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922 Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947 Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951 Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957 Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978 John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988 Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999 Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005 Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021 Glossary 1032 Timeline 1040 Name Index 1053 Subject Index 1058