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Marc Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brief Description:
Includes a complementary StudySpace website for further study.
Publisher Marketing:
The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms--from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections--with an emphasis on contemporary writers--combine to make
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.
Contributor Bio:Gates, Henry Louis, Jr
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008;
Black in Latin America;
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora;
Faces of America;
Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self;
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism;
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars;
Colored People: A Memoir;
The Future of Race with Cornel West;
Wonders of the African World;
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries
Finding Your Roots;
Black in Latin America;
Faces of America;
African American Lives 1 and 2;
Looking for Lincoln;
America Beyond the Color Line; and
Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of
African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and
The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah;
Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.
Contributor Bio:Smith, Valerie
Valerie Smith (Ph.D. University of Virginia), General Editor. Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, professor of English and African American Studies, and founding director of the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. Author of
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative;
Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings; and
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination. Editor of several works, including
Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video;
African-American Writers; and
New Essays on Song of Solomon.
Contributor Bio:Andrews, William L
William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography and
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, and co-editor of
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of
Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt;
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography, 1760-1865;
Sisters of the Spirit; The Curse of Caste by Julia C. Collins;
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave; and
Slave Narratives after Slavery.
Contributor Bio:Benston, Kimberly
Kimberly W. Benston is Francis B. Gummere Professor of English at Haverford College, where he has also served as director of the Hurford Center for Arts and Humanities, provost, and the fifteenth president, and from which he received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. His books include
Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism. He is editor of
Imamu Amiri Baraka: A Collection of Critical Essays,
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison,
Larry Neal: Essays, the "Performance" Special Issue of PMLA, and the "Black Arts Movement" section of
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
Contributor Bio:Edwards, Brent Hayes
Brent Hayes Edwards (Ph.D. Columbia University), is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies; and the forthcoming
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. He is editor of
PMLA.
Contributor Bio:Foster, Frances Smith
Frances Smith Foster is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the Editor of
The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance and co-editor of
The Literature of Slavery and Freedom. She is the author of
"Til Death or Distance Do Us Part" Love and Marriage in African America; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892; and
Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. She is co-editor of
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and Harriet Jacobs's
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and editor of several works, including
Love and Marriage in Early African America; Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Elizabeth Keckley's
Behind the Scenes; and the Norton Critical Edition of Jacobs's
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Contributor Bio:McDowell, Deborah E
Deborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue) is the Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of
Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of
"The Changing Same" Studies in Fiction by Black Women;
Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's
Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's
Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins's
Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.
Contributor Bio:O'Meally, Robert G
Robert G. O'Meally (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor,
The Vernacular Tradition. Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and founder of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University. Author of
The Jazz Singers;
The Craft of Ralph Ellison;
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday; and
Romare Bearden; A Black Odyssey. Editor of the essay collections
History and Memory in African American Culture;
New Essays on Invisible Man: Tales of the Congaree;
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture; co-editor of
History and Memory in African American Culture and
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies.
Contributor Bio:Spillers, Hortense
Hortense Spillers (Ph.D. Brandeis),
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Vanderbilt University. Author of the essay collection
Black, White, and in Color. Editor of the collection
Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text; co-editor with Marjorie Pryse of
Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and the Literary Tradition, and an editor of
The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Director of Issues in Critical Investigation (ICI), an initiative to stimulate new scholarship in African diasporic studies, which she founded in 2007; founding editor of
The A-Line Journal, A Journal of Progressive Commentary, which she launched in 2013. Recent work has appeared in
Callaloo and boundary 2.
Contributor Bio:Wall, Cheryl A
Cheryl A. Wall (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor,
Literature Since 1975. Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Rutgers University. Author of
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition and
Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Editor of
Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories and
Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings; two volumes of criticism on Hurston's fiction,
"Sweat" Texts and Contexts and
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook; and
Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Co-editor with Linda J. Holmes of
Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara.
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