The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep...
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Author: Henry Louis Gates
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Gates, Henry Louis

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

$125.00

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

$125.00
Author: Henry Louis Gates
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature brings together an extraordinary array vast in scope and deep in cultural and historical significance. Preeminent scholar and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr., who presided over the book's creation in the 1990s, continues as general editor, working with a team of highly respected and creative period editors to keep the anthology teachable, up to date, and authoritative.

This long-anticipated Fourth Edition, available in both print and ebook formats, introduces new works in every period, in particular a generous selection of the brilliant writing by African Americans in the twenty-first century.



Author: Henry Louis Gates
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/01/2025
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 5.29lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 2.94d
ISBN: 9781324047063

About the Author
Foster, Frances Smith: - Frances Smith Foster is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the Editor of The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance and co-editor of The Literature of Slavery and Freedom. She is the author of "Til Death or Distance Do Us Part" Love and Marriage in African America; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892; and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. She is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and editor of several works, including Love and Marriage in Early African America; Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes; and the Norton Critical Edition of Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Edwards, Brent Hayes: - Brent Hayes Edwards (Ph.D. Columbia University), is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies; and the forthcoming Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. He is editor of PMLA.McDowell, Deborah E.: - Deborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue) is the Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of "The Changing Same" Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.
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