| Description |
x, 512 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1 Early Ethnic Writers : Essay : Boyhood days / Booker T. Washington -- The kitchen / Alfred Kazin -- Poetry : O Black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson -- The Negro speaks of rivers ; Still here ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- After Winter ; Virginia portrait / Sterling Brown -- A sweat-shop romance / Abraham Cahan -- Mr Kaplan and the Magi / Leo Rosten -- The wife of his youth / Charles Waddell Chestnutt -- Rat Joiner routs the Klan / Theodore Poston -- On the popularity of firemen ; The big fine / Finley Peter Dunne -- The insurance salesman, the peasant, the rug merchant, and the potted plant / William Saroyan -- pt. 2 Voices of Allienation and Protest : Introduction -- Essay : The sould of a landlord / Michael Gold -- The situation of the Jewish writer / Isaac Rosenfeld -- The way it is / Ralph Ellison -- Poetry: The poet ; We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- To certain critics ; Yet do I marvel ; Incident / Countee Cullen -- As I grew older ; Harlem / Langston Hughes -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Dark symphony ; The man inside / Melvin B. Tolson -- We have been believers / Margaret Walker -- Short Story : Who's passing for who? ; Duty is not snooty / Langston Hughes -- The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright -- Scab! / Albert Halper -- The oratory contest ; Precinct Captain / James T. Farrell -- M. Farid / Leon Surmelian -- Pt. 3 Ethnic Writing Comes of Age : Instroduction -- Essay: Writing about Jews / Philip Roth -- Hidden name and complex fate / Ralph Ellison -- The discovery of what it means to be an American / James Baldwin -- Poetry : The sea-turtle and the shark ; Abraham Lincoln of Rock Spring Farm / Melvin B. Tolson -- Southeast corner ; The White troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Open letter ; Definition / Owne Dodson -- Full moon ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues / Robert Hayden -- A sparrow is a bird ; This is an African worm / Margaret Danner -- Booker T. and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall -- To snatch (or American gothic) / Samuel Allen -- Mr. Z / M. Carl Holman -- My grandfather ; Travelogue for exiles / Karl Shapiro -- A song of degrees ; Debate with the Rabbi / Howard Nemerov -- After looking in to a book belonging to my great-grandfater, Eli Eliakin Plutzik ; Portrait / Hyam Plutzik -- Europe and America ; To nowhere / David Ignatow -- Short Story : Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- The rockpile / James Baldwin -- A visit to grandmother / William Melvin Kelley / In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Scwartz -- A father-to-be / Saul Bellow -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Defender of the faith / Philip Roth -- A pile of stones / Hugh Nissenson -- The forks ; Dawn / J.F. powers -- The burning acid / Richard Hagopian. |
| Subject |
American literature.
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| ISBN |
0153470704 |
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