Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1969-02-28
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780316380317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ALL FACETS OF NEGRO LIFE ARE FICTIONALLY PORTRAYED BY NEGRO WRITERS, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, FROM 1899 TO THE PRESENT.
Author: Christine Rudisel
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-08-19
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 048647139X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," Charles W. Chesnutt's "Uncle Wellington’s Wives," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Scapegoat." Other stories include "Becky" by Jean Toomer; "Afternoon" by Ralph Ellison; Langston Hughes's "Feet Live Their Own Life"; and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W. E. B. Du Bois. Samples of more recent fiction include tales by Jervey Tervalon, Alice Walker, and Edwidge Danticat. Ideal for browsing, this collection is also suitable for courses in African-American studies and American literature.
Author: Gloria Naylor
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1997-02-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780316599238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compelling, sometimes disturbing, and certainly provocative. Naylor has arranged the stories thematically so the reader focuses on a particular subject - slavery, for example, or the family. In the hands of different writers, these themes provide a wealth and variety of human experience. The stories are more than testimonies of the long battle for survival. From a young woman's struggles with her barren faith in Alice Walker's lyrical "The Diary of an African Nun" to an innocent man's involvement in a horrifying act of violence in Ann Petry's "The Witness", they are, as Naylor states in her introduction, "examples of affirmation: of memory, of history, of family, of being". They are stories for all of us "at the beginning: of mankind as a species; of America as a nation; of the African-American as a full citizen".
Author: David R. Roediger
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0307482294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America? From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but until now much of this writing has been ignored. Black on White reverses this trend by presenting the work of more than fifty major figures, including James Baldwin, Derrick Bell, Ralph Ellison, W.E.B. Du Bois, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker to take a closer look at the many meanings of whiteness in our society. Rich in irony, artistry, passion, and common sense, these reflections on what Langston Hughes called "the ways of white folks" illustrate how whiteness as a racial identity derives its meaning not as a biological category but as a social construct designed to uphold racial inequality. Powerful and compelling, Black on White provides a much-needed perspective that is sure to have a major impact on the study of race and race relations in America.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0374521336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of the author's favorite stories chosen from three of his books: "Simple Speaks his Mind," "Simple Takes a Wife," and "Simple Stakes a Claim."
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1218
ISBN-13: 9780316740920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Emily Bernard
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0451493028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A collection of essays on race"--Provided by publisher.