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Black Voices - (Signet Classics) by Various (Paperback)

Black Voices - (Signet Classics) by  Various (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This anthology featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism features contributions from noted African-American writers such as Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more, presenting some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"If you don't know my name, you don't know your own."--James Baldwin</b> <p/>Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, <i>Black Voices</i> captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today's African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States. <p/><b>Contributors Include: </b><br><b>Sterling A. Brown<br>Charles W. Chesnutt<br>John Henrik Clarke<br>Countee Cullen<br>Frederick Douglass<br>Paul Laurence Dunbar<br>James Weldon Johnson<br>Naomi Long Madgett<br>Paule Marshall<br>Clarence Major<br>Claude McKay<br>Ann Petry<br>Dudley Randall<br>J. Saunders Redding<br>Jean Toomer<br>Darwin T. Turner</b> <p/><b>As well as: </b><br><b>Lerone Bennett, Jr.</b><br><b>Frank London Brown</b><br><b>Arthur P. Davis</b><br><b>Frank Marshall Davis</b><br><b>Owen Dodson</b><br><b>Mari Evans</b><br><b>Rudolph Fisher</b><br><b>Dan Georgakas</b><br><b>Robert Hayden</b><br><b>Frank Horne</b><br><b>Blyden Jackson</b><br><b>Lance Jeffers</b><br><b>Fenton Johnson</b><br><b>George E. Kent</b><br><b>Alain Locke</b><br><b>Diane Oliver</b><br><b>Stanley Sanders</b><br><b>Richard G. Stern</b><br><b>Sterling Stuckey</b><br><b>Melvin B. Tolson</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>About the Editor</b> <p/><b>Abraham Chapman</b> was professor of English and Chairman of the American Literature survey courses at Wisconsin State University-Stevens Point. His writings include critical studies on American literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and book reviews for various leading periodicals. He was the author of <i>The Negro in American Literature</i>. In 1968, Professor Chapman received the Biennial College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award for his study <i>The Harlem Renaissance in Literary History</i>, published in <i>CLA Journal</i>.

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