Icons of African American literature
Subtitle: the Black literary world
By: Yolanda Williams Page, Editor
Series: Greenwood icons; Greenwood icons
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313352034; 9780313352041
Subjects: African Americans in literature; African American authors; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maya Angelou / by Kimberly Oden; title: James Baldwin / by Jasmin J. Vann; title: Black aesthetic / by Lakisha Odlum; title: Black arts movement / by RaShell R. Smith-Spears; title: Blues aesthetic / by Lynn Washington; title: Paul Laurence Dunbar / by Thomas Cassidy; title: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / by Mark S. James; title: Harlem Renaissance / by Ordner W. Taylor, III; title: E. Lynn Harris / by Regina N. Bradley; title: Langston Hughes / by Karima K. Jeffrey; title: Zora Neale Hurston / by Warren J. Carson; title: Invisible man / by Dolores V. Sisco; title: Jazz aesthetic / by Karine Bligny; title: Terry McMillan / by Marian C. Dillahunt; title: Toni Morrison / by Annie-Paule Mielle de Prinsac and Susana M. Morris; title: Walter Mosley / by Jessica Parker; title: Native son / by Aimable Twagilimana and Cammie M. Sublette; title: A raisin in the sun / by Carol Bunch Davis and Alexis M. Skinner; title: Signifying / by Timothy Mark Robinson; title: Slave narrative / by Terry Novak; title: The souls of black folk / by Robert J. Patterson; title: Up from slavery / by Jessica Parker; title: Alice Walker / by Erin Huskey; title: August Wilson / by Yolanda W. Page.