TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarrett, Gene Andrew, ed.
TI  - The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature: 1920 to the present
SN  - 9780470671931
U1  - 810.9896073 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - UK
PB  - Wiley Blackwell
KW  - American literature--African American authors
KW  - American literature
KW  - African Americans
N2  - 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 second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present
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