African American literature
By: by Stephen Currie
Series: Lucent library of Black history
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420503838
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; African American authors; African Americans; Juvenile literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : African American literature through the years; title: Oral tradition and the first Black writers: 1600-1820; title: Slave and free : 1800-1865; title: After the Civil War : 1865-1915; title: The Harlem Renaissance : 1918-1940; title: Through the civil rights struggle? 1940-1969; title: Into a new century : 1970-present.