Icons of African American literature : the Black literary world /

Provides extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, including Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston.

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Other Authors: Page, Yolanda Williams
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, 2011.
Series:Greenwood icons.
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Table of Contents:
  • Maya Angelou / by Kimberly Oden
  • James Arthur Baldwin / by Jasmin J. Vann
  • Black aesthetic / by Lakisha Odlum
  • Black arts movement / by RaShell R. Smith-Spears
  • Blues aesthetic / by Lynn Washington
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar / by Thomas Cassidy
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / by Mark S. James
  • Harlem Renaissance / by Ordner W. Taylor, III
  • E. Lynn Harris / by Regina N. Bradley
  • Langston Hughes / by Karima K. Jeffrey
  • Zora Neale Hurston / by Warren J. Carson
  • Invisible man / by Dolores V. Sisco
  • Jazz aesthetic / by Karine Bligny
  • Terry McMillan / by Marian C. Dillahunt
  • Toni Morrison / by Annie-Paule Mielle de Prinsac and Susana M. Morris
  • Walter Mosley / by Jessica Parker
  • Native son / by Aimable Twagilimana and Cammie M. Sublette
  • A raisin in the sun / by Carol Bunch Davis and Alexis M. Skinner
  • Signifying / by Timothy Mark Robinson
  • Slave narrative / by Terry Novak
  • The souls of black folk / by Robert J. Patterson
  • Up from slavery / by Jessica Parker
  • Alice Walker / by R. Erin Huskey
  • August Wilson / by Yolanda Williams Page.