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Dreaming Out Loud : African American Novelists at Work /

Bois, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Gayl Jones, Terry McMillan, James Alan McPherson, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed, Martha Southgate, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, John Edgar Wideman, Richard Wr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Porter, Horace A., 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.