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Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work /
Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also accomplished po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. On Becoming African American Novelists
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare (1964)
- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973)
- Introduction to Black Thunder (1968)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- From The Big Sea (1940)
- Richard Wright (1908-1960)
- From Black Boy (1945)
- James Baldwin
- From The Devil Finds Work (1976)
- Chester Himes (1909-1984)
- From The Quality of Hurt (1973)
- Ishmael Reed (1938- )
- Boxing on Paper: Thirty-Seven Years Later (1988)
- James Alan McPherson (1943- )
- On Becoming an American Writer (1978)
- Terry McMillan (1951- )
- Introduction to Breaking Ice (1990)
- John Edgar Wideman (1941- )
- From Brothers and Keepers (1984)
- Part Two. On Aesthetics, Craft, and Publication
- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
- Criteria of Negro Art (1926)
- Langston Hughes
- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)
- Gayl Jones (1949- )
- About My Work (1988)
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- What White Publishers Won't Print (1950)
- John Edgar Wideman
- Preface to Breaking Ice (1990)
- Martha Southgate (1960- )
- Writers Like Me (2007)
- Charles Johnson (1948- )
- The Writer's Notebook: A Note on Working Methods (1999)
- Walter Mosley (1952- )
- For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day (2001)
- Part Three. On Writing Major Novels
- Richard Wright
- From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940)
- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man" (1981)
- Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972)
- Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )
- Miss Jane and I (1978)
- Alice Walker (1944- )
- Writing The Color Purple (1982)
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Writing A Lesson Before Dying (2005)
- Toni Morrison (1931- )
- Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993)
- List of Contributors' Novels and Short Stories
- Notes
- Sources and Permissions
- Index.