Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature?If you don't know my name, you don't know your own.”?James Baldwin 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 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 As well as: 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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User Review - Muscogulus - LibraryThingThis is a well curated, densely packed anthology of African American literature that I have returned to constantly over the years. Published in 1968, it includes work ranging from Frederick Douglass's ... Read full review
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User Review - jaja54 - Overstock.comthis book was a gift to a person who loves literature and I cant tell you how many times they have called me to thank me for the book. the book tells the history of unknow and known African American ... Read full review
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| Title | Black Voices: An Anthology of African-American Literature A Mentor book Signet Classics |
| Editor | Abraham Chapman |
| Compiled by | Abraham Chapman |
| Contributor | Abraham Chapman |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue, revised |
| Publisher | Signet Classic, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0451527828, 9780451527820 |
| Length | 720 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / American / General |
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