Research Catalog

Title

Afro-American literature [by] William Adams, Peter Conn [and] Barry Slepian.

Author

Adams, William, 1936-

Publication

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1970-

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Details

Additional Authors

• Conn, Peter J.
• Slepian, Barry

Description

v. ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

The first volume of this series contains shorter fictional works by James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and other lesser known authors. The second volume contains three plays: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry; "A Land Beyond the River" by Loften Mitchell; and "Purlie Victorious" by Ossie Davis. The third volume includes the poetry of Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Angelina W. Grimké, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and others. The fourth volume includes the essays, speeches, and memoirs of Claude Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Frederick Douglass, Dick Gregory, LeRoi Jones [Imamu Amiri Baraka], Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and others.

Subject

• Geschichte 1958-1963
• American poetry > African American authors
• African Americans > Literary collections
• American literature > African American authors
• Readers
• American fiction > African American authors
• American drama > African American authors
• African Americans in literature
• Readers > African Americans

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Anthologie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[1] Fiction.-- [2] Drama. -- [3] Poetry. -- [4] Nonfiction.

LCCN

^^^77012560^//r932

OCLC

• 77760
• SCSB-12652972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library