AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

SUB-PAGES

Feminist / Womanist:

• African American Feminist (Womanist) Thought

AUTHORS

• Wheatley, Phillis (1753 - 1784)

• Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960)

• Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)

• Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)

• Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1987)

• James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

• Amiri Baraka (1934 - )

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Transatlantic Exchange: African Americans and the Celtic Nations, Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Department of English, University of Wales, Swansea, March 28-30

2006:

• Bridges or Fences: Diversity on the American Stage, a Symposium Re-engaging the Wilson-Brustein Debates, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, June 24

2005:

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2000:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Johnson, Charles.  Being and Race. 

On-Line:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Johnson, Charles: The End of the Black American Narrative The American Scholar (Summer 2008)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Jackson, Blyden.  The Long Beginning, 1746-1895.  Vol. 1 of A History of Afro-American Literature.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989.
  • Stepto, Robert B.  "Teaching Afro-American Literature: Survey or Tradition: the Reconstruction of Instruction."  Afro-American Literature: the Reconstruction of Instruction.  Ed. Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto.  New York: MLA, 1979.  8-24.

On-Line:

• Campbell, Donna: The Slave Narrative

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