Masterplots II. African American literature /

Contains essays on individual titles by great novelists, playwrights, memoirists, historians, and critics as well as the bodies of work of major poets, short-story writers, essayists, and orators.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Tyrone
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2009.
Edición:Rev. ed.
Colección:Masterplots II
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > Stories, plots, etc.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > African American authors.
Stories, plots, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • v. 1. A-Dre
  • v. 2. Dri-Ma
  • v. 3. Mag-Poe
  • v. 4. Pos-Z.
  • Volume 1:
  • Afrocentricity / Molefi K. Asante
  • Ain't I a woman / Bell Hooks
  • All-bright court / Connie Porter
  • All god's children need traveling shoes / Maya Angelou
  • The American evasion of philosophy / Cornel West
  • Anancy's score / Andrew Salkey
  • Angela Davis / Angela Davis
  • Annie John / Jamaica Kincaid
  • Another country / James Baldwin
  • Appalachee Red / Raymond Andrews
  • The artificial white man / Stanley Crouch
  • At the bottom of the river / Jamaica Kincaid
  • The autobiograpical writings of William Wells Brown / William Wells Brown
  • The autobiography of a jukebox / Cornelius Eady
  • The autobiography of an ex-coloured man / James Weldon Johnson
  • The autobiography Chester Himes
  • The autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Autobiography of my dead brother / Walter Dean Myers
  • The autobiography of my mother / Jamaica Kincaid
  • The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Babel-17 / Samuel R. Delany
  • Baby of the family / Tina McElroy Ansa
  • Bailey's café / Gloria Naylor
  • Banana bottom / Claude McKay
  • The battle of Jericho / Sharon M. Draper
  • Beetlecreek / William Demby
  • Beloved / Toni Morrison
  • Betsey Brown / Ntozake Shange
  • The big sea, and, I wonder as I wander / Langston Hughes
  • Bird at my window / Rosa Guy
  • Black Betty / Walter Mosley
  • Black boy, and, American hunger / Richard Wright
  • Black ice / Lorene Cary
  • Black macho and the myth of spiderwoman / Michele Wallace
  • Black men / Haki R. Madhubuti
  • The Black Muslims in America / C. Eric Lincoln
  • Black no more / George S. Schuyler
  • Black thunder / Arna Bontemps
  • The blacker the berry / Wallace Thurman
  • "Blue Meridian" / Jean Toomer
  • Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin
  • The bluest eye / Toni Morrison
  • The bondwoman's narrative / Hannah Crafts
  • Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat
  • Bright shadow / Joyce Carol Thomas
  • A brighter sun / Samuel Selvon
  • Bronx masquerade / Nikki Grimes
  • Bronzeville boys and girls / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman
  • Brothers and sisters / Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Brown girl, brownstones / Paule Marshall
  • Brutal imagination / Cornelius Eady
  • Bucking the Sarge / Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Cambridge / Caryl Phillips
  • The cancer journals / Audre Lorde
  • Cane / Jean Toomer
  • Captain Blackman / John A. Williams
  • Captivity / Toi Derricotte
  • Catherine Carmier / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III
  • The Chaneysville incident / David Bradley
  • The chinaberry tree / Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • A chocolate soldier / Cyrus Colter
  • The chosen place, the timeless people / Paule Marshall
  • Clifford's blues / John A. Williams
  • Clotel / William Wells Brown
  • The color of water / James McBride
  • The color purple / Alice Walker
  • The colored museum / George C. Wolfe
  • Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
  • Coming up down home / Cecil Brown
  • The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States politically considered / Martin Robison Delany
  • The conjure-man dies / Rudolph Fisher
  • The conjure woman / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  • Contending forces / Pauline Hopkins
  • The content of our character / Shelby Steele
  • Corregidora / Gayl Jones
  • Country Place / Ann Petry
  • Cranial guitar / Bob Kaufman
  • The crisis of the negro intellectual / Harold Cruse
  • Crossing the river / Caryl Phillips
  • The culture of bruising / Gerald Early
  • The curse of caste / Julia C. Collins
  • Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether
  • The Dahomean / Frank Yerby
  • Daughters / Paule Marshall
  • The death of the last black man in the whole entire world / Suzan-Lori Parks
  • dem / William Melvin Kelley
  • Dessa Rose / Sherley Anne Williams
  • Devil in a blue dress / Walter Mosley
  • A different drummer / William Melvin Kelley
  • Disappearing acts / Terry McMillan
  • A distant shore / Caryl Phillips
  • The dragon can't dance / Earl Lovelace
  • A dream deferred / Shelby Steele
  • Dream on Monkey Mountain / Derek Walcott.
  • Volume 2:
  • Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer
  • Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Dutchman / Amiri Baraka
  • Erasure / Percival Everett
  • The essays of Amiri Baraka / Amiri Baraka
  • The essays of Ralph Ellison
  • The essays of C.L.R. James
  • The essays of Ishmael Reed
  • The ethics of identity / Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Eva's man / Gayl Jones
  • Faith and the good thing / Charles Johnson
  • Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers
  • Family / J. California Cooper
  • The farming of bones / Edwidge Danticat
  • Fatheralong / John Edgar Wideman
  • Fences / August Wilson
  • The fire next time / James Baldwin
  • The first part last, and, Heaven / Angela Johnson
  • The fisher king / Paule Marshall
  • Fist, stick, knife, gun / Geoffrey Canada
  • The flagellants / Carlene Hatcher Polite
  • Flight to Canada / Ishmael Reed
  • for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange
  • Free enterprise / Michelle Cliff
  • From slavery to freedom / John Hope Franklin
  • Funnyhouse of a negro / Adrienne Kennedy
  • A gathering of old men / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Gemini / Nikki Giovanni
  • Giovanni's room / James Baldwin
  • Give us each day / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin
  • God bless the child / Kristin Hunter
  • The great wells of democracy / Manning Marable
  • The Guyana quartet / Wilson Harris
  • Having our say / Sarah Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany
  • The healing / Gayl Jones
  • The heart of a woman / Maya Angelou
  • A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich / Alice Childress
  • High cotton / Darryl Pinckney
  • His own where / June Jordan
  • Home to Harlem / Claude McKay
  • The homewood trilogy / John Edgar Wideman
  • The house behind the cedars / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  • How Stella got her groove back / Terry McMillan
  • Hunting in Harlem / Mat Johnson
  • Hurry home / John Edgar Wideman
  • Hush / Jacqueline Woodson
  • I get on the bus / Reginald McKnight
  • I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
  • If he hollers let him go / Chester Himes
  • If you come softly / Jacqueline Woodson
  • In the blood / Suzan-Lori Parks
  • In the castle of my skin / George Lamming
  • In the wine time / Ed Bullins
  • Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs
  • Infants of the Spring / Wallace Thurman
  • The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano
  • The interruption of everything / Terry McMillan
  • Intimate apparel / Lynn Nottage
  • The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead
  • Invisible man / Ralph Ellison
  • Iola Leroy / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Jazz / Toni Morrison
  • Jelly roll / Kevin Young
  • Jelly's last jam / George C. Wolfe
  • Jitney / August Wilson
  • Joe Turner's come and gone / August Wilson
  • John Henry days / Colson Whitehead
  • Joker, joker, deuce / Paul Beatty
  • Jonah's gourd vine / Zora Neale Hurston
  • The journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
  • Jubilee / Margaret Walker
  • Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison
  • Just above my head / James Baldwin
  • Kindred / Octavia E. Butler
  • King Hedley II / August Wilson
  • The known world / Edward P. Jones
  • Krik? Krak! / Edwindge Danticat
  • Kwaku / Roy A.K. Heath
  • Lady sings the blues / Billy Holliday, with William Dufty
  • The land / Mildred D. Taylor
  • Lawd today / Richard Wright
  • The learning tree / Gordon Parks, Sr.
  • A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines
  • Let me breathe thunder / William Attaway
  • Let the circle be unbroken / Mildred D. Taylor
  • Let the dead bury their dead / Randall Kenan
  • Life on the color line / Gregory Howard Williams
  • Like one of the family / Alice Childress
  • Linden Hills / Gloria Naylor
  • Local history / Erica Hunt
  • The lonely Londoners / Samuel Selvan
  • The long dream / Richard Wright
  • A long way gone / Ishmael Beah
  • Lost in the city / Edward P. Jones
  • Love / Toni Morrison
  • Lucy / Jamaica Kincaid
  • M.C. Higgins, the great / Virginia Hamilton
  • Ma Rainey's black bottom / August Wilson.
  • Volume 3:
  • The magazine novels of Pauline Hopkins / Pauline Hopkins
  • Maker of saints / Thulani Davis
  • Mama / Terry McMillan
  • Mama day / Gloria Naylor
  • The man who cried I am / John A. Williams
  • Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown
  • Marked by fire / Joyce Carol Thomas
  • Maud Martha / Gwenolyn Brooks
  • A measure of time / Rosa Gay
  • Meridian / Alice Walker
  • The messenger / Charles Wright
  • Middle passage / Charles Johnson
  • Minty Alley / C.L.R. James
  • Miracle's boys / Jacqueline Woodson
  • Monster / Walter Dean Myers
  • Montgomery's children / Richard Perry
  • Moses, man of the mountain / Zora Neal Hurston
  • The motion of light in water / Samuel R. Delany
  • Mumbo jumbo / Ishmael Reed
  • My amputations / Clarence Major
  • My brother / Jamaica Kincaid
  • My life with Martin Luther King, Jr. / Coretta Scott King
  • A narrative of some remarkable incidents in the life of Solomon Bayley, formerly a slave in the State of Delaware, North America
  • Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
  • Narrative of the lord's wonderful dealings with John Marrant, a black
  • Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a negro man
  • The narrows / Ann Petry
  • Native guard / Natasha Trethewey
  • Native son / Richard Wright
  • Natives of my person / George Lamming
  • The new negro / Alain Locke
  • 1959 / Thulani Davis
  • Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
  • Once upon a time when we were colored / Clifton L. Taulbert
  • One more river to cross / Keith Boykin
  • Our nig / Harriet E. Wilson
  • The outsider / Richard Wright
  • Oxherding tale / Charles Johnson.
  • Painted turtle / Clarence Major
  • Parable of the sower, and, Parable of the talents / Octavia E. Butler
  • Paradise / Toni Morrison
  • Passing / Nella Larsen
  • The patternist series / Octavia E. Butler
  • Philadelphia fire / John Edgar Wideman
  • A photograph / Ntozake Shange
  • The piano lesson / August Wilson
  • Platitudes / Trey Ellis
  • Plum bun / Jessie Redman Fauset
  • Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Phillis Wheatley
  • The poetry of Ai
  • The poetry of Maya Angelou
  • The poetry of Amiri Baraka
  • The poetry of Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • The poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
  • The poetry of Sterling Brown /
  • The poetry of Lucille Clifton
  • The poetry of Wanda Coleman
  • The poetry of Jayne Cortez
  • The poetry of Countée Cullen
  • The poetry of Owen Dodson
  • The poetry of Rita Dove
  • The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • The poetry of Mari Evans
  • The poetry of Nikki Giovanni
  • The poetry of Michael S. Harper
  • The poetry of Robert Hayden
  • The poetry of George Moses Horton
  • The poetry of Langston Hughes
  • The poetry of June Jordan
  • The poetry of Etheridge Knight
  • The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa
  • The poetry of Audre Lord
  • The poetry of Claude McKay
  • The poetry of Haki R. Madhubuti
  • The poetry of Thylias Moss
  • The poetry of Dudley Randall
  • The poetry of Carolyn M. Rodgers
  • The poetry of Sonia Sanchez
  • The poetry of Melvin B. Tolson
  • The poetry of Derek Walcott
  • The poetry of Alice Walker
  • The poetry of Sherley Anne Williams
  • The poetry of Jay Wright
  • The poetry of Al Young.
  • Volume 4:
  • Possessing the secret of joy / Alice Walker
  • Praisesong for the widow / Paule Marshall
  • The president's daughter / Barabara Chase-Riboud
  • Purlie victorious / Ossie Davis
  • Quicksand / Nella Larsen
  • Race matters / Cornel West
  • A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
  • A rat's mass / Adrienne Kennedy
  • Reckless eyeballing / Ishmael Reed
  • Reflex and bone structure / Clarence Major
  • Right here, right now / Trey Ellis
  • The river Niger / Joseph A. Walker
  • The rivers of eros / Cyrus Colter
  • RL's dream / Walter Mosley
  • Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor
  • Roots / Alex Haley
  • Runner Mack / Barry Beckham
  • Running a thousand miles for freedom / William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • Sally Hemings / Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • The salt eaters / Toni Cade Bambara
  • Sarah Phillips / Andrea Lee
  • Scenes from a sistah / Lolita Files
  • Season of adventure / George Lamming
  • Seduction by light / Al Young
  • Seraph on the Suwanee / Zora Neale Hurston
  • Seven guitars / August Wilson
  • The shadow bride / Roy A.K. Heath
  • The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry
  • The signifying monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Singing in the comeback choir / Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Slavery and social death / Orlando Patterson
  • Sleeping with the dictionary / Harryette Mullen
  • A soldier's play / Charles Fuller
  • Soledad brother / George Jackson
  • Some people, some other place
  • Some soul to keep / J. California Cooper
  • Song of Solomon / Toni Morrison
  • Soul clap hands and sing / Paule Marshall
  • Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver
  • The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The speeches of Malcolm X
  • The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee
  • The sport of the gods / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • The spyglass tree / Albert Murray
  • Squabble and other stories / John Holman
  • Stars in my pocket like grains of sand / Samuel R. Delany
  • The stories of Toni Cade Bambera
  • The stories of Henry Dumas
  • The stories of Langston Hughes
  • The stories of James Alan McPherson
  • The street / Anne Petry
  • Suder / Percival Everett
  • Sula / Toni Morrison
  • Sweet whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton
  • The system of Dante's hell / Amiri Baraka
  • The taking of Miss Janie / Ed Bullins
  • Tar baby / Toni Morrison
  • Technical difficulties / June Jordan
  • Their eyes were watching god / Zora Neale Hurston
  • There is tree more ancient than Eden / Leon Forrest
  • The third life of Grange Copeland / Alice Walker
  • This child's gonna live / Sarah E. Wright
  • Those bones are not my child / Toni Cade Bambara
  • Through the Ivory Gate / Rita Dove
  • Topdog/Underdog / Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray
  • Trouble in mind / Alice Childress
  • The truly disadvantaged / William Julius Wilson
  • Two trains running / August Wilson
  • Two wings to veil my face / Leon Forrest
  • Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
  • The Venus Hottentot / Elizabeth Alexander
  • A visitation of spirits / Randall Kenan
  • Voices in the mirror / Gordon Parks, Sr.,
  • W.E.B. Du Bois / David Levering Lewis
  • Waiting to exhale / Terry McMillan
  • Walk me to the distance / Percival Everett
  • Walkin' the dog / Walter Mosley
  • The wind done gone / Alice Randall
  • The wine of astonishment / Earl Lovelace
  • The women of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor
  • Xenogenesis / Octavia E. Butler
  • Yearning / Bell Hooks
  • Yellow back radio broke-down / Ishmael Reed
  • Your blues ain't like mine / Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Zami: a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde.

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