Black writers of America; : a comprehensive anthology

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The work Black writers of America; : a comprehensive anthology represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Black writers of America; : a comprehensive anthology

Title remainder

a comprehensive anthology

Statement of responsibility

[by] Richard Barksdale [and] Keneth Kinnamon

Contributor

• Barksdale, Richard K., (Richard Kenneth), 1915-1993
• Kinnamon, Keneth

Compiler

• Barksdale, Richard K., (Richard Kenneth), 1915-1993
• Kinnamon, Keneth

Subject

• African Americans
• African Americans -- Intellectual life
• African Americans -- Intellectual life -- Bibliography
• African Americans -- Literary collections
• Afro-Americans -- Literary collections
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors
• American literature -- African American authors -- Bibliography
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism -- Bibliography
• American literature -- Afro-American authors
• American literature -- Afro-American authors -- Bibliography
• American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism -- Bibliography
• Anthologie
• Bibliography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literary collections
• Literatur
• Schwarze
• USA

Genre

• Literary collections
• Bibliography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Additional physical form

Also issued online.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810/.8/0896073

Index

index present

LC call number

PS508.N3

LC item number

B35

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography