My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics Of Early African-american Literature

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Running Press, Oct 3, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 1270 pages
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This powerful compilation of African-American literature through the centuries focuses on classic works by notable authors from Frederick Douglass to W. E. B. DuBois. The poetry of 18th-century writers Phillis Wheatly and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave join a chorus of eloquent voices chronicling the black experience in America. My Soul Has Grown Deep includes such landmark works as A Red Record by Ida B. Wells, a Harlem Renaissance writer; Lyrics of a Lowly Life by the prolific playwright, poet, and novelist Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington; and The Autobiography of Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out by the heavyweight boxing champion. Each writer is introduced in an informative biographical essay by editor John Edgar Wideman. New York Times bestselling author John Edgar Wideman is the first author to receive two PEN/Faulkner awards. He has written 13 books, including Brothers and Keepers and Philadelphia Fire .

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For this heady and hefty volume, two-time PEN Faulkner Award winner Wideman (Philadelphia Fire) has chosen 12 examples of the country's best black writing through the Harlem Renaissance and presented ... Read full review

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Writer John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, D. C., on June 14, 1941. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, studied at Oxford University, and was the second African American to become a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and eventually founded and chaired the African American studies department. He also taught at the University of Wyoming and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Wideman is the author of more than a dozen books. Sent for You Yesterday won a PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984, and Philadelphia Fire received one a decade later. Fatheralong was a finalist for the National Book Award (1994) and Brothers and Keepers was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (1995).

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TitleMy Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics Of Early African-american Literature
Running Press Series
AuthorJohn Edgar Wideman
EditorJohn Edgar Wideman
Editionillustrated
PublisherRunning Press, 2001
ISBN0762410353, 9780762410354
Length1270 pages
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Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black
  
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