Gene Andrew Jarrett 
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1 
1746 – 1920

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American
Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short
stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays
authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the
present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the
first such anthology to be conceived and published for both
classroom and online education in the new millennium.

* Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of
African American literary studies

* Selects literary texts according to extensive research on
classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of
leading professors

* Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods
of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that
accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political
movements

* Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of
major works than any other anthology of its kind

* This first volume contains a comprehensive collection of
texts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century
until the 1920s

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About the author

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the
Department of English at Boston University. He earned his
A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in
English from Brown University. Jarrett is the author of
Representing the Race: A New Political History of African
American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and
Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor
or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American
literature and literary criticism. He is the recipient of
fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Editorial Advisory Board

Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University

Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University

Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University

Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago

Michele Elam, Stanford University

Philip Gould, Brown University

George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University

Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia

Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin,
Madison

James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst

Werner Sollors, Harvard University

John Stauffer, Harvard University

Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester

Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University