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Up from Slavery
`My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.' For half a century from its publication in 1901 Up from Slavery was the …
Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)
This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of …
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work …
Writing Desire
Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, ""Writing Desire"" examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar …
Classic African American Women's Narratives
Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African …
The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt
The career of any black writer in nineteenth-century American was fraught with difficulties, and William Andrews undertakes to explain how and why Charles Waddell Chesnutt …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass’ 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives, along with essays, a chronology and bibliography. …
The Quest of the Silver Fleece (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States …
Six Women's Slave Narratives
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal …
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms--from …
North Carolina Slave Narratives
Moving testaments to the struggle for freedom The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national - and …
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same …