Selected African-American Writing from 1760-1910 - Softcover

Davis, Arthur P.

9780553214352: Selected African-American Writing from 1760-1910

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553214357 ISBN 13: 9780553214352

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1994

A tribute to 150 years of African American literature features fictional excerpts, poems, columns, memoirs, and speeches by such figures as Frederick Douglass, Gustavus Vassa, and Harriet E. Wilson

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This exciting new collection chronicles one hundred and fifty years of African American writing, featuring works by well-known authors as well as less prominent but significant voices. Included here are a sampling of Gustavus Vassa's immensely popular 1789 travel memoir,"The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Oaudah Equaino"; the early nineteenth-century slave poet and campus orator George Moses Horton's comic "The Creditor to His Proud Debtor"; Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July" speech of 1852, an eloquent denunciation of slavery; selections from Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig (1859), the first recorded novel by an African American woman; the pastoral romance and spiritual revivalism of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry; an excerpt of New England journalist Pauline Hopkin's sophisticated depiction of interracial relationships, Contending Forces (1900), and much more.

This landmark edition, derived from Howard University Press's acclaimed anthology The New Calvacade, illuminates the development of an important body of literature that flourished virtually unrecognized from colonial times to the beginning of the century--a rich, vibrant record of American life and thought in voices that range from accommodation to compromise to outright protest.

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