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Black Voices Mass market paperbound - 2001

by Various; Abraham Chapman (Editor); Introduction by Abraham Chapman

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This anthology featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism features contributions from noted African-American writers such as Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more, presenting some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States.

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Featuring poetry, fiction, autobiography and literary criticism, this is a comprehensive and vital collection featuring the work of the major black voices of a century. An unparalleled important classic anthology with timeless appeal...

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From the publisher

"If you don't know my name, you don't know your own."--James Baldwin

An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American authors of our time, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Leroi Jones, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, Malcom X, and many more.

Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today's African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States.

Contributors Also Include:
Sterling A. Brown
Charles W. Chesnutt
John Henrik Clarke
Countee Cullen
Frederick Douglass
Paul Laurence Dunbar
James Weldon Johnson
Naomi Long Madgett
Paule Marshall
Clarence Major
Claude McKay
Ann Petry
Dudley Randall
J. Saunders Redding
Jean Toomer
Darwin T. Turner
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Frank London Brown
Arthur P. Davis
Frank Marshall Davis
Owen Dodson
Mari Evans
Rudolph Fisher
Dan Georgakas
Robert Hayden
Frank Horne
Blyden Jackson
Lance Jeffers
Fenton Johnson
George E. Kent
Alain Locke
Diane Oliver
Stanley Sanders
Richard G. Stern
Sterling Stuckey
Melvin B. Tolson

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American Negroes were writing and publishing fiction for nearly four decades before Charles Waddell Chesnutt's first short story appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1887.

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  • Title Black Voices
  • Author Various; Abraham Chapman (Editor); Introduction by Abraham Chapman
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 816
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Book, New York
  • Publication date 2001-04-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780451527820 / 0451527828
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.9 in (17.02 x 10.67 x 4.83 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans, American literature - African American
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.809

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About the Editor

Abraham Chapman was professor of English and Chairman of the American Literature survey courses at Wisconsin State University-Stevens Point. His writings include critical studies on American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and book reviews for various leading periodicals. He was the author of The Negro in American Literature. In 1968, Professor Chapman received the Biennial College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award for his study The Harlem Renaissance in Literary History, published in CLA Journal.

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