num_pages: 2776
description: Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.This landmark anthology includes the work of 120 writers over two centuries, from the earliest known work by an African American, Lucy Terry's poem "Bars Fight, " to the fiction of the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and the poems of the U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove.
language: English
title: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
titlecomplete: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
genres: Short Stories, American, African American Literature, Poetry, Literature, Reference, African American, Anthologies, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1128
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company