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245 00 Dreaming out loud :|bAfrican American novelists at work /
|c[edited by] Horace Porter.
264 1 Iowa City :|bUniversity of Iowa Press,|c[2015]
300 1 online resource
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. On
Becoming African American Novelists -- James Baldwin (1924
-1987) -- Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare (1964) -- Arna
Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Introduction to Black Thunder
(1968) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- From The Big Sea
(1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- From Black Boy
(1945) -- James Baldwin -- From The Devil Finds Work
(1976) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- From The Quality of
Hurt (1973) -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- Boxing on Paper:
Thirty-Seven Years Later (1988) -- James Alan McPherson
(1943- ) -- On Becoming an American Writer (1978) -- Terry
McMillan (1951- ) -- Introduction to Breaking Ice (1990) -
- John Edgar Wideman (1941- ) -- From Brothers and Keepers
(1984) -- Part Two. On Aesthetics, Craft, and Publication
-- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Criteria of Negro Art
(1926) -- Langston Hughes -- The Negro Artist and the
Racial Mountain (1926) -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) -- About My
Work (1988) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Negro
Authors and White Publishers (1929) -- Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960) -- What White Publishers Won't Print (1950) --
John Edgar Wideman -- Preface to Breaking Ice (1990) --
Martha Southgate (1960- ) -- Writers Like Me (2007) --
Charles Johnson (1948- ) -- The Writer's Notebook: A Note
on Working Methods (1999) -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) -- For
Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day (2001) --
Part Three. On Writing Major Novels -- Richard Wright --
From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940) -- Ralph Ellison (1913
-1994) -- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary
Edition of Invisible Man" (1981) -- Margaret Walker (1915-
1998) -- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972) -- Ernest J.
Gaines (1933- ) -- Miss Jane and I (1978) -- Alice Walker
(1944- ) -- Writing The Color Purple (1982) -- Ernest J.
Gaines -- Writing A Lesson Before Dying (2005).
505 8 Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993)
-- List of Contributors' Novels and Short Stories -- Notes
-- Sources and Permissions -- Index.
520 Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the
most well-known and respected African American writers of
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing
various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing
fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also
accomplished poets, essayists, and playwrights, this
collection and the essays it contains remains focused on
the novel as a genre and an art form. Some essays explore
the challenges of being an African American writer in the
United States, broadly addressing aesthetic and racial
prejudice in American publishing and literature and its
changing face over the decades. Others are more specific
and personal, recounting how the authors came to be a
reader and writer in a culture that did not always
encourage them to do so. Some are more general and focus
on practice and craft, while still other essays offer
detailed behind-the-scenes accounts of how famous novels,
such as Native Son, Invisible Man, The Autobiography of
Miss Jane Pittman, and The Color Purple, came to life.
Ranging from the Harlem Renaissance, through the Civil
Rights movement, and into the twenty-first century, this
anthology explores what it has meant to be an African
American novelist over the past hundred years. Found
within are essays by twenty-one African American novelists,
including Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, National Book
Award-winners Ralph Ellison and Charles Johnson, Pulitzer
Prize-winners Alice Walker and James Alan McPherson, and
well-known canonical writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James
Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora
Neale Hurston, and Margaret Walker. Dreaming Out Loud
seeks to inspire writers and readers alike, while offering
a fascinating and important portrait of novelists at work
in their own words. CONTRIBUTORS James Baldwin, Arna
Bontemps, W.E.B. Du.
520 8 Bois, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines, Chester Himes,
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson,
James Weldon Johnson, Gayl Jones, Terry McMillan, James
Alan McPherson, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Reed,
Martha Southgate, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, John
Edgar Wideman, Richard Wright.
588 0 Print version record.
650 0 American fiction|xAfrican American authors.
650 0 African Americans in literature.
650 0 Fiction|xAuthorship.
650 0 Race awareness in literature.
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xAmerican|xGeneral.|2bisacsh
650 7 REFERENCE|xWriting Skills.|2bisacsh
650 7 African Americans in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799727
650 7 American fiction|xAfrican American authors.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst00807049
650 7 Fiction|xAuthorship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00923713
650 7 Race awareness in literature.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086463
655 0 Electronic books.
700 1 Porter, Horace A.,|d1950-|eeditor.
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