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
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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