Gene Andrew Jarrett 
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 
1920 to the Present

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 second volume contains a comprehensive collection of
texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the
present

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Table of Content

Editorial Advisory Board xv

Preface xvi

Introduction xxi

Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv

Acknowledgments xxvii

Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance:
c.1920-1940 1

Introduction 3

Claude Mc Kay (1889-1948) 7

Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) 58

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 77

Countée Cullen (1903-1946) 125

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 137

Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 164

Helene Johnson (1906-1995) 190

Alain Locke (1885-1954) 197

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 207

George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) 219

Dorothy West (1907-1998) 244

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 251

Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 261

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 318

Richard Wright (1908-1960) 332

Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil
Rights: c.1940-1965 385

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 391

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 418

Chester Himes (1909-1984) 426

Ann Petry (1908-1997) 441

James Baldwin (1924-1987) 472

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) 512

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) 599

Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black
Aesthetic: c.1965-1975 607

Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613

Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637

Larry Neal (1937-1981) 649

Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 661

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665

Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672

Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) 680

June Jordan (1936-2002) 686

Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the
Present 709

Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715

Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725

Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 761

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) 778

Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808

Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820

Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835

August Wilson (1945-2005) 869

Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915

Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922

Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947

Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951

Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957

Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978

John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988

Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999

Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005

Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021

Glossary 1032

Timeline 1040

Name Index 1053

Subject Index 1058

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