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The Cambridge History of African American Literature

The Cambridge History of African American Literature

Edited by:
Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward, Jr

Online Publication Date:
May 2011

Print Publication Year:
2011

Hardback ISBN:
9780521872171

Online ISBN:
9780511780967

The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasize the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history. Unprecedented in scope, sophistication and accessibility, the volume draws together current scholarship in the field. It also looks ahead to suggest new approaches, new areas of study, and as yet undervalued writers and works. The Cambridge History of African American Literature is a major achievement both as a work of reference and as a compelling narrative and will remain essential reading for scholars and students in years to come.

Reviews:

"Covering 400 years of writing, this balanced reference is a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States, with expert contributors from this country and beyond. It does an excellent job of collecting current scholarship while suggesting new approaches to that effort. The work provides a reasonably complete chronological accounting from early oral traditions of the 17th century to classic works from late 19th-century writers such as poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, through Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance, to the most recent decades where August Wilson became the most produced playwright in the 1990s." -Library Journal, Best Reference 2011: Language & Linguistics
"Comprised of newly published essays by leading and emerging scholars in African American literature, CHAAL chronicles four hundred years of black writing and cultural production across multiple genres of writing (e.g., fiction, drama, and poetry) as well as across multiple physical, social, and ideological terrains. Since constructing a literary his- tory is at the center of this project, editors Maryemma Graham and Jerry Ward, Jr. carefully articulate the basis upon which this text articulates such a history." -American Studies

Frontmatter
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pp. i-xii

Introduction by Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward
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pp. 1-18

PART I - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1 - Sounds of a tradition: the souls of black folk by F. Abiola Irele
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pp. 19-38

2 - Early print literature of Africans in America by Philip Gould
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pp. 39-51

3 - The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760–1820 by Vincent Carretta
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pp. 52-65

6 - Writing freedom: race, religion, and revolution, 1820–1840 by Kimberly Blockett
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pp. 116-133

9 - The “fictions” of race by Keith Byerman and Hanna Wallinger
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pp. 177-205

10 - “We Wear the Mask”: the making of a poet by Keith Leonard
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pp. 206-219

11 - Toward a modernist poetics by Mark A. Sanders
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pp. 220-238

PART II - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

12 - Foundations of African American modernism, 1910–1950 by Craig H. Werner and Sandra G. Shannon
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pp. 239-267

13 - The New Negro Movement and the politics of art by Emily Bernard
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pp. 268-287

14 - African American literature and the Great Depression by Darryl Dickson-Carr
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pp. 288-310

15 - Weaving jagged words: the black Left, 1930s–1940s by Nicole Waligora-Davis
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pp. 311-340

16 - Writing the American story, 1945–1952 by John Lowe
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pp. 341-355

17 - Geographies of the modern: writing beyond borders and boundaries by Sabine Broeck
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pp. 356-376

18 - African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent by Daryl Cumber Dance
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pp. 377-404

19 - Reform and revolution, 1965–1976: the Black Aesthetic at work by James E. Smethurst and Howard Rambsy II
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pp. 405-450

20 - History as fact and fiction by Trudier Harris
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pp. 451-496

21 - Redefining the art of poetry by Opal J. Moore
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pp. 497-531

23 - New frontiers, cross-currents and convergences: emerging cultural paradigms by Madhu Dubey and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
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pp. 566-618

PART III - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AS ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CAPITAL

24 - Children's and young adult literatures by Giselle Liza Anatol
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pp. 619-654

25 - From writer to reader: black popular fiction by Candice Love Jackson
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pp. 655-679

28 - African American literatures and New World cultures by Kenneth W. Warren
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pp. 730-745

Bibliography
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pp. 746-806

Index

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pp. 807-846

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