The Norton anthology of African American literature /
Contributor(s): Gates, Henry Louis | McKay, Nellie Y.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1997Description: xliv, 2665 p. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0393040011 (cased); 9780393040012:; 0393959082 (pbk).Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors | African Americans -- Literary collectionsDDC classification: 810.8096073Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Library Use Only | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Reference Collection | 810.8096073 GAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0048009 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 2625-2648) and index.
Vernacular tradition -- Spirituals -- Gospel -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Rap -- Sermons -- Folktales -- Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865 -- Reconstruction: 1865-1919 -- Harlem Renaissance: 1919-1940 -- Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960 -- Black Arts Movement: 1960-1970 -- Since 1970.
Works by more than 120 writers covering more than two hundred years encompass the genres of fiction, poetry, short stories, drama, autobiography, journals, and letters.