Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature
Editor/Author
Samuels, Wilfred D.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Facts On File
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4381-4059-9
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, Second Edition covers the entire spectrum of the African-American literary tradition, from the 18th-century writings of pioneers such as Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatley, to 20th-century canonic texts, to the finest of today's best-selling authors and rap artists.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Entries
- A
- Adams, Jenoyne
- Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
- African American Review
- Ai
- AIDS in African-American literature
- Alexander, Will
- Allen, Jeffery Renard
- Angelou, Maya
- Annie John
- Another Country
- Ansa, Tina McElroy
- Attaway, William
- Aubert, Alvin
- The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- B
- Baker, Houston A., Jr.
- Baldwin, James
- “A Ballad of Remembrance”
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Banneker, Benjamin
- Baraka, Amiri
- Barksdale, Richard K.
- Barlow, George
- Beatty, Paul
- Beckham, Barry
- Beloved
- Belton, Don
- Bennett, Hal
- Berry, Venise T.
- The Big Sea: An Autobiography
- black aesthetic
- Black American Literature: Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Drama
- Black Arts Movement
- Black Boy
- Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writings
- Black Issues Book Review (BIBR)
- Black Nationalism
- Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land
- Black Power
- Black World (Negro Digest)
- Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology
- “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
- blues in African-American literature
- Boles, Robert
- Bonair-Agard, Roger
- Bonner, Marita Odette
- Bontemps, Arna
- Boyd, Melba Joyce
- Boykin, Keith
- Bradley, David
- Braithwaite, William Stanley Beaumont
- Broadside Press
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men
- Brothers and Keepers
- Brown, Claude
- Brown, Frank London
- Brown Girl, Brownstones
- Brown, Sterling Allen
- Bullins, Ed
- Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
- Butler, Octavia E.
- C
- Cain, George
- Caldwell, Benjamin
- Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
- Callaloo: A Journal of African American Diaspora Art and Letters
- Campbell, Bebe Moore
- Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present
- Cave Canem
- Celestine, Alfred Bernard
- Channer, Colin
- Chant of Saints
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Childress, Alice
- Christian, Barbara
- Civil Rights movement in African-American literature
- Cleage, Pearl
- Cleaver, Eldridge
- Clifton, Lucille
- Coleman, Wanda
- The College Language Association Journal (CLAJ)
- The Color Purple
- Colter, Cyrus
- The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem
- The Conjure Woman and Other Stories
- Cooper, J. California
- Corbin, Steven
- Cornish, Sam
- Corregidora
- Corrothers, James
- Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Jr.
- Cotter, Joseph Seamon, Sr.
- The Crisis
- Cullen, Countee
- D
- Danner, Margaret Esse
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Datcher, Michael
- Davis, Ossie
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Demby, William
- Derricotte, Toi
- Dessa Rose
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Dickey, Eric Jerome
- A Different Drummer
- Dixon, Melvin
- Dodson, Owen
- Douglass, Frederick
- Dove, Rita
- DuBois, W. E. B.
- Due, Tananarive
- Dumas, Henry
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Dust Tracks on a Road
- Dutchman
- Dyson, Michael Eric
- E
- Eady, Cornelius
- Elder, Lonne, III
- Ellis, Trey
- Ellison, Ralph
- Emmett Till in African-American literature
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Essence
- Evans, Mari
- Everett, Percival
- “Everybody's Protest Novel”
- F
- Fabio, Sarah Webster
- Fair, Ronald
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Fences
- Finney, Nikky
- Fire!!
- Fisher, Rudolph
- Flowers, Arthur
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
- Forrest, Leon
- The Foxes of Harrow
- French, Albert
- Fuller, Hoyt
- G
- Gaines, Ernest
- Garnet, Henry Highland
- Garvey, Marcus
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
- Gayle, Addison, Jr.
- George, Nelson
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Glave, Thomas
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers
- Goines, Donald
- Golden, Marita
- Gomez, Jewelle
- Gordone, Charles
- The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
- Greenlee, Sam
- Griggs, Sutton
- Grimké, Angelina Weld
- Grooms, Anthony
- Gunn, William Harrison
- Guy, Rosa Cuthbert
- Guy-Sheftall, Beverly
- H
- Hamer, Forrest
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Hammon, Jupiter
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hardy, James Earl
- Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem Shadows
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Harper, Michael S.
- Harris, E. Lynn
- Hayden, Robert Earl
- Hemphill, Essex
- Henderson, David
- Henderson, George Wylie
- Henderson, Stephen Evangelist
- Heritage Series of Black Poetry
- Hernton, Calvin Coolidge
- Himes, Chester
- historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
- Home to Harlem
- hooks, bell
- Hopkins, Pauline
- Hopkinson, Nalo
- Horton, George Moses
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- I
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Iceberg Slim
- If He Hollers Let Him Go
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
- Invisible Life
- Invisible Man
- J
- Jackson, Major
- Jacobs, Harriet
- James, Glenroy Winston
- Jazz
- Jeffers, Lance
- Joans, Ted
- Johnson, Angela
- Johnson, Charles R.
- Johnson, Georgia Douglas
- Johnson, Helene
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Jones, Edward P.
- Jones, Gayl
- Jordan, June
- Jubilee
- Juneteenth
- K
- Karenga, Maulana
- Kaufman, Bob
- Kelley, William Melvin
- Kenan, Randall Garrett
- Kennedy, Adrienne
- Killens, John Oliver
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kindred
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Knight, Etheridge
- Komunyakaa, Yusef
- L
- Larsen, Nella
- Lester, Julius
- “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
- Lewis, William Henry
- The Living Is Easy
- Locke, Alain
- Lorde, Audre
- Lyrics of Lowly Life
- M
- Mackey, Nathaniel
- Madgett, Naomi Long
- Madhubuti, Haki
- Major, Clarence
- Major, Marcus
- Malcolm X
- Mama Day
- Mammy in African-American literature
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- The Marrow of Tradition
- Marshall, Paule
- Maud Martha
- Mayfield, Julian
- McCall, Nathan
- McDonald, Janet
- McElroy, Colleen Johnson
- McGruder, Aaron
- McKay, Claude
- McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
- McMillan, Terry
- McPherson, James Alan
- Mengestu, Dinaw
- The Messenger
- Micheaux, Oscar
- Middle Passage
- Miller, Eugene Ethelbert
- Miller, May
- Milner, Ronald
- Mitchell, Loften
- Mitchell, Margaree King
- Moody, Anne
- Morrison, Toni
- Mosley, Walter
- Motley, Willard
- Mules and Men
- Mullen, Harryette
- Mumbo Jumbo
- Murray, Albert
- Murray, Pauli
- N
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
- Nat Turner in African-American literature
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Native Son
- Naylor, Gloria
- Neal, Larry
- Neely, Barbara
- Neely, Letta
- Negritude
- The Negro Caravan: Writings by Negro Writers
- Nelson, Jill
- The New Negro: An Interpretation
- Nigger Heaven
- Nugent, Richard Bruce
- Nuñez, Elizabeth
- O
- Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life
- Our Nig
- P
- Parable of the Sower
- Parker, Gwendolyn
- Parker, Pat
- Parks, Gordon
- Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Pawley, Thomas W., Jr.
- Perry, Richard H.
- Peterson, Louis Stamford, Jr.
- Petry, Ann
- Pharr, Robert Deane
- Philadelphia Fire
- Phillips, Carl
- Plumpp, Sterling
- Polite, Carlene Hatcher
- Powell, Kevin
- Powell, Patricia
- Purlie Victorious
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece
- R
- Rachel
- A Raisin in the Sun
- Randall, Dudley
- Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology
- Redding, Jay Saunders
- Redmond, Eugene B.
- Reed, Ishmael
- Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Ringgold, Faith
- Rodgers, Carolyn M.
- Ross, Frances Delores
- S
- Saint, Assotto
- Saint James, Synthia
- Salaam, Kalamu
- Sambo and Uncle Tom in African-American literature
- Sanchez, Sonia
- Sapphire
- Schuyler, George
- Scott-Heron, Gil
- Senna, Danzy
- Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent
- Shakur, Tupac
- Shange, Ntozake
- Shepherd, Reginald
- Sherman, Charlotte Watson
- The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
- Simmons, Judy Dothard
- Sinclair, April
- Slade, Leonard, Jr.
- Smith, William Gardner
- “Smoke, Lilies and Jade”
- “Sonny's Blues”
- Soul on Ice
- Souljah, Sister
- The Souls of Black Folk
- Southern Road
- The Sport of the Gods
- “Spunk”
- Staples, Brent
- Steptoe, John Lewis
- The Stone Face
- The Street
- Sula
- T
- Tademy, Lalita
- Tervalon, Jervey
- testifying in African-American literature
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- There Is Confusion
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland
- Third World Press
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
- Thomas, Joyce Carol
- Thomas, Lorenzo
- Thomas, Trisha R.
- Thurman, Wallace
- Tolson, Melvin B.
- Toomer, Jean
- Touré, Askia Muhammad
- Train Whistle Guitar
- tricksters in African-American literature
- Tropic Death
- Troupe, Quincy
- Truth, Sojourner
- Turner, Darwin T.
- Turpin, Waters E.
- Tyree, Omar
- U
- Up from Slavery
- V
- Van Peebles, Melvin
- Van Vechten, Carl
- A Visitation of Spirits
- W
- Walker, Alice
- Walker, David
- Walker, Margaret
- Walrond, Eric
- Ward, Douglas Turner
- Ward, Jesmyn
- Washington, Booker T.
- Watts Writers Workshop
- The Ways of White Folks
- Weaver, Afaa Michael
- Weber, Carl
- Wells, Ida B.
- West, Cornel
- West, Dorothy
- What You Owe Me
- Wheatley, Phillis
- White, Paulette Childress
- White, Walter
- Whitehead, Colson
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Williams, John Alfred
- Williams, Sherley Anne
- Wilson, August
- Wilson, Harriet
- The Wind Done Gone
- Wolfe, George C.
- womanist/womanish
- The Women of Brewster Place
- Woodson, Jacqueline Amanda
- Wright, Charles Stevenson
- Wright, Jay
- Wright, Richard
- Wright, Sarah Elizabeth
- Y
- Yerby, Frank
- Young, Al
- Young, Kevin
- Youngblood, Shay
- Z
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
- Zane
- Support Materials
- Major Works by African-American Writers
- Bibliography of Secondary Sources
- Contributors