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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1: 1746 - 1920
Contributor(s): Jarrett, Gene Andrew (Editor)
ISBN: 0470658002     ISBN-13: 9780470658000
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $105.69  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - African American
Dewey: 810.989
LCCN: 2013033149
Series: Blackwell Anthologies
Physical Information: 2.3" H x 7.1" W x 9.7" (4.15 lbs) 1160 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium.

  • Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies
  • Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors
  • Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements
  • Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind
  • This first volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the 1920s
The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.