Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University. He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Editorial Advisory Board
Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton University
Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University
Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell University
Madhu Dubey, University of Illinois, Chicago
Michele Elam, Stanford University
Philip Gould, Brown University
George B. Hutchinson, Cornell University
Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia
Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
James Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Werner Sollors, Harvard University
John Stauffer, Harvard University
Jeffrey Allen Tucker, University of Rochester
Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

Editorial Advisory Board xv
Preface xvi
Introduction xxi
Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920-1940 1
Introduction 3
Claude McKay (1889-1948) 7
Jessie Fauset (1882-1961) 58
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 77
Countée Cullen (1903-1946) 125
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) 137
Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) 164
Helene Johnson (1906-1995) 190
Alain Locke (1885-1954) 197
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 207
George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) 219
Dorothy West (1907-1998) 244
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 251
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 261
Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) 318
Richard Wright (1908-1960) 332
Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940-1965 385
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) 391
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 418
Chester Himes (1909-1984) 426
Ann Petry (1908-1997) 441
James Baldwin (1924-1987) 472
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) 512
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) 599
Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965-1975 607
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613
Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637
Larry Neal (1937-1981) 649
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 661
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) 680
June Jordan (1936-2002) 686
Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709
Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715
Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725
Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) 761
Octavia Butler (1947-2006) 778
Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808
Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820
Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835
August Wilson (1945-2005) 869
Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915
Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922
Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951
Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957
Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978
John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988
Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999
Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005
Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021
Glossary 1032
Timeline 1040
Name Index 1053
Subject Index 1058

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