| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxiv, 925 pages)) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1. James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka - - Black Arts Movement -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sterling Brown -- Octavia Butler -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Lucille Clifton -- Countee Cullen -- Samuel R. Delany -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ralph Ellison -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Leon Forrest -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Michael S. Harper -- Robert Hayden -- Chester Himes -- Pauline Hopkins -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston - - Charles Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Gayl Jones. v. 2. June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid - - Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nella Larsen -- Audre Lorde -- Clarence Major -- Paule Marshall -- Claude McKay -- Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Ann Petry -- Ishmael Reed -- Ntozake Shange -- The Slave Narrative in American Literature -- Spiritual Autobiography -- Melvin Tolson -- Jean Toomer -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Shirley Anne Williams -- August Wilson -- Jay Wright -- Richard Wright. |
| Summary |
Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important African American writers. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.
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African American authors -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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African Americans in literature -- Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Valerie, 1956- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: African American writers. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2001 9780684806389 |
| ISBN |
9780684316680 (electronic book) |
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9780684806389 (set) |
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068480638X (set) |
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9780684806396 (v. 1) |
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0684806398 (v. 1) |
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9780684806402 (v. 2) |
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0684806401 (v. 2) |
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