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Black writers of America : a comprehensive anthology / created by Richard K Barksdale and Keneth Kinnamon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Macmillan, 1972Description: 917 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780137793990
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS508.N3 BAR
Contents:
pt. 1. Eighteenth-Century Beginnings -- pt. 2. Struggle Against Slavery and Racism: 1800-1860 -- pt. 3. Black Man in the Civil War: 1861-1865 -- pt. 4. Reconstruction and Reaction: 1865-1915 -- pt. 5. Renaissance and Radicalism: 1915-1945 -- pt. 6. Present Generation: Since 1945.
Summary: This comprehensive collection of Afro-American literature - from its beginnings to the 1970s - provides a generous selection of autobiographies, essays, speeches, letters, political pamphlets, histories, journals, and folk literature as well as poems, plays, and stories - all chosen for their artistic and social significance. A carefully structured organization and the scope and diversity of selections make the anthology suitable to a variety of approaches - chronological, by topic, by theme, or by genre.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf PS508.N3 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 57014 Available BK130248
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf PS508.N3 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 57728 Available BK144149
Book Book Zvishavane Library Open Shelf PS508.N3 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 57725 Available BK78621

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. 1. Eighteenth-Century Beginnings --
pt. 2. Struggle Against Slavery and Racism: 1800-1860 --
pt. 3. Black Man in the Civil War: 1861-1865 --
pt. 4. Reconstruction and Reaction: 1865-1915 --
pt. 5. Renaissance and Radicalism: 1915-1945 --
pt. 6. Present Generation: Since 1945.

This comprehensive collection of Afro-American literature - from its beginnings to the 1970s - provides a generous selection of autobiographies, essays, speeches, letters, political pamphlets, histories, journals, and folk literature as well as poems, plays, and stories - all chosen for their artistic and social significance. A carefully structured organization and the scope and diversity of selections make the anthology suitable to a variety of approaches - chronological, by topic, by theme, or by genre.

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