70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays
Passing, The Goophered Grapevine, The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others
Description of book
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.
The collection includes works by such prominent masters of American literature as Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt , Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington , W. E. B. Du Bois and many others.
Novels and short stories
Frederick Douglass
THE HEROIC SLAVE
Nella Larsen
QUICKSAND
PASSING
THE WRONG MAN
FREEDOM
SANCTUARY
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
A CARNIVAL JANGLE
VIOLETS
THE WOMAN
TEN MINUTES' MUSING
TITEE
Charles W. Chesnutt
THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE
PO' SANDY
SIS' BECKY'S PICKANINNY
THE DOLL
THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH
Paul Laurence Dunbar
THE SCAPEGOAT
Jean Toomer
BECKY
Poetry
Phillis Wheatley
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM, EARL OF DARTMOUTH
