《THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE》求取 ⇩

THE VERNACULAR TRADITION5

［Entries marked·are included on the Audio Companion］5

SPIRITUALS5

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord？7

City Called Heaven8

God’s A-Gonna Trouble the Water8

Walk Together Children9

I Know Moon-Rise9

I’m A-Rollin’10

I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned10

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel？10

Soon I Will Be Done11

No More Auction Block12

Swing Low，Sweet Chariot13

Steal Away to Jesus13

Go Down，Moses14

Been in the Storm So Long14

Oh，Freedom！15

GOSPEL16

This Little Light of Mine17

Down by the Riverside18

Freedom in the Air20

Take My Hand，Precious Lord20

Peace Be Still21

Stand by Me21

THE BLUES22

Yellow Dog Blues23

St.Louis Blues24

Beale Street Blues25

Down-Hearted Blues26

See，See Rider27

Prove It on Me Blues27

Gulf Coast Blues28

Trouble in Mind29

Backwater Blues29

In the House Blues30

How Long Blues31

Hellhound on My Trail31

It’s a Low Down Dirty Shame32

Good Morning，Blues33

Sent for You Yesterday34

Going to Chicago Blues34

Fine and Mellow34

Hoochie Coochie35

Sunnyland36

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS，BALLADS，AND WORK SONGS37

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS38

［We raise de wheat］38

Me and My Captain38

Promises of Freedom39

Jack and Dinah Want Freedom39

Run，Nigger，Run40

Learn to Count40

Another Man Done Gone40

You May Go But This Will Bring You Back41

BALLADS41

Poor Lazarus41

The Signifying Monkey42

Wild Negro Bill44

John Henry45

Frankie and Johnny48

Railroad Bill49

Stackolee50

Sinking of the Titanic51

Shine and the Titanic51

WORK SONGS52

Pick a Bale of Cotton52

Go Down，Old Hannah53

Can’t You Line It？54

JAZZ55

Andy Razaf：（What Did I Do to Be So） Black and Blue？57

Duke Ellington：It Don’t Mean a Thing （If It Ain’t Got That Swing）58

King Pleasure：Parker’s Mood59

RAP60

Gil Scott-Heron：The Revolution Will Not Be Televised61

Grandmaster Flash ＆ the Furious Five：The Message62

Public Enemy：Don’t Believe the Hype65

Queen Latifah：The Evil That Men Do68

SERMONS69

God71

C.L.Franklin：The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest71

Zora Neale Hurston：［Faith hasn’t got no eyes］78

Martin Luther King：I Have a Dream80

Martin Luther King：I’ve Been to the Mountaintop83

Malcolm Ⅹ：The Ballot or the Bullet90

FOLKTALES102

All God’s Chillen Had Wings103

Big Talk105

Deer Hunting Story106

How to Write a Letter107

“’Member Youse a Nigger”107

“Ah’ll Beatcher Makin’ Money”108

Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest111

Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men111

“De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard”114

The Ventriloquist114

You Talk Too Much，Anyhow115

The King Buzzard116

A Flying Fool117

Bur Rabbit in Red Hill Churchyard118

Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again119

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story120

How Mr.Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr.Fox121

The Awful Fate of Mr.Wolf123

What the Rabbit Learned125

THE LITERATURE OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM：1746—1865127

LUCY TERRY （c.1730—1821）137

Bars Fight137

OLAUDAH EQUIANO （c.1745—1797）138

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano，or Gustavus Vassa，the African，Written by Himself140

Volume Ⅰ140

Chapter Ⅰ141

Chapter Ⅱ151

From Chapter Ⅲ161

From Chapter Ⅳ164

PHILLIS WHEATLEY （1753？—1784）164

POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS，RELIGIOUS AND MORAL167

Preface167

［Letter Sent by the Author’s Master to the Publisher］167

［To the Publick］168

To Maecenas169

To the University of Cambridge，in New-England170

On Being Brought from Africa to America171

On the Death of the Rev.Mr.George Whitefield.1770171

To the Right Honourable William，Earl of Dartmouth172

On Imagination173

ToS.M.，a Young African Painter，on Seeing His Works175

To Samson Occom176

To His Excellency General Washington176

DAVID WALKER （1785—1830）178

David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles； Together with a Preamble，to the Coloured Citizens of the World179

Preamble179

Article Ⅰ.Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery182

GEORGE MOSES HORTON （1797？—1883？）190

The Lover’s Farewell191

On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet’s Freedom192

Division of an Estate193

The Creditor to His Proud Debtor194

George Moses Horton，Myself195

SOJOURNER TRUTH （1797—1883）196

Ar’n’t I a Woman？Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron，Ohio，1851198

From The Anti-Slavery Bugle，June 21，1851198

From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth，1878199

MARIA W.STEWART （1803—1879）201

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality，the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build202

Introduction202

Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall204

HARRIET JACOBS （c.1813—1897）207

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl209

Preface209

Ⅰ.Childhood210

Ⅱ.The New Master and Mistress212

Ⅴ.The Trials of Girlhood216

Ⅹ.A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life218

ⅪⅤ.Another Link to Life222

ⅩⅦ.The Flight224

ⅩⅪ.The Loophole of Retreat226

ⅩⅩⅨ.Preparations for Escape229

ⅩⅩⅩⅨ.The Confession235

ⅩL.The Fugitive Slave Law236

ⅩLⅠ.Free at Last240

WILLIAM WELLS BROWN （1814？—1884）245

Narrative of William W.Brown，a Fugitive Slave247

Chapter Ⅴ247

From Chapter Ⅵ249

Clotel； or，The President’s Daughter255

Chapter Ⅰ.The Negro Sale255

Chapter Ⅱ.Going to the South261

Chapter Ⅳ.The Quadroon’s Home265

Chapter ⅩⅤ.To-Day a Mistress，To-Morrow a Slave267

Chapter ⅩⅨ.Escape of Clotel269

ADA ［SARAH L.FORTEN］ （1814—1898？）277

Lines Suggested on Reading “An Appeal to Christian Women of the South，” by A.E.Grimke277

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET （1815—1882）279

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America280

VICTOR SEJOUR （1817—1874）286

The Mulatto287

FREDERICK DOUGLASS （1818—1895）299

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass，an American Slave，Written by Himself302

My Bondage and My Freedom369

Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ.Introduced to the Abolitionists369

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Twenty-One Months in Great Britain373

From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July？：An Address Delivered in Rochester，New York，on 5 July 1852379

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass391

Second Part From Chapter ⅩⅤ.Weighed in the Balance391

Third Part Chapter Ⅰ.Later Life397

JAMES M.WHITFIELD （1822—1871）401

America402

Yes！ Strike Again That Sounding String405

Self-Reliance406

FRANCES E.W.HARPER （1825—1911）408

Ethiopia412

Eliza Harris412

The Slave Mother414

Vashti415

Bury Me in a Free Land417

Aunt Chloe’s Politics418

Learning to Read418

A Double Standard419

Songs for the People421

An Appeal to My Country Women422

The Two Offers423

Our Greatest Want431

Fancy Etchings432

［Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations］432

［Dangerous Economies］434

Woman’s Political Future436

HARRIET E.WILSON （1828？—1863？）439

Our Nig； or，Sketches from the Life of a Free Black，in a Two-StoWhite House，North441

Preface441

Chapter Ⅰ.Mag Smith，My Mother441

Chapter Ⅱ.My Father’s Death444

Chapter Ⅲ.A New Home for Me447

From Chapter ⅤⅢ.Visitor and Departure452

ChapterⅩ.Perplexities.—Another Death455

ChapterⅫ.The Winding Up of the Matter458

LITERATURE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE：1865—1919461

CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE （1837—1914）472

A Parting Hymn473

Journals474

From Journal One474

From Journal Three480

BOOKER T.WASHINGTON （1856—1915）488

Up From Slavery490

Chapter Ⅰ.A Slave among Slaves490

Chapter Ⅱ.Boyhood Days498

Chapter Ⅲ.The Struggle for an Education505

Chapter ⅩⅣ.The Atlanta Exposition Address513

CHARLES W.CHESNUTT （1858—1932）522

The Goophered Grapevine523

The Passing of Grandison532

The Wife of His Youth545

ANNA JULIA COOPER （1858？—1964）553

Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race554

PAULINE E.HOPKINS （1859—1930）569

Contending Forces570

Chapter Ⅷ.The Sewing-Circle570

Chapter ⅩⅤ.Will Smith’s Defense of His Race577

Famous Men of the Negro Race581

Booker T.Washington581

Famous Women of the Negro Race588

Literary Workers （Frances E.W.Harper）588

Letter from Cordelia A.Condict and Pauline Hopkins’s Reply（March 1903）593

IDA B.WELLS-BARNETT （1862—1931）595

A Red Record596

Chapter Ⅰ.The Case Stated596

Chapter Ⅹ.The Remedy602

W.E.B.DU BOIS （1868—1963）606

A Litany of Atlanta609

The Song of the Smoke612

The Souls of Black Folk613

The Damnation of Women740

Criteria of Negro Art752

Two Novels759

JAMES D.CORROTHERS （1869—1917）760

The Snapping of the Bow762

Me ’n’ Dunbar763

Paul Laurence Dunbar764

At the Closed Gate of Justice764

An Indignation Dinner765

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON （1871—1938）766

Sence You Went Away768

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing768

O Black and Unknown Bards769

Fifty Years770

Brothers773

The Creation775

My City777

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man777

The Book of American Negro Poetry861

Preface861

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR （1872—1906）884

Ode to Ethiopia886

Worn Out887

A Negro Love Song888

The Colored Soldiers889

An Ante-Bellum Sermon891

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes893

Not They Who Soar894

When Malindy Sings894

We Wear the Mask896

Little Brown Baby897

Her Thought and His897

A Cabin Tale898

Sympathy900

Dinah Kneading Dough901

The Haunted Oak901

Douglass903

Philosophy903

Black Samson of Brandywine904

The Poet905

The Fourth of July and Race Outrages905

SUTTON E.GRIGGS （1872—1933）906

The Hindered Hand； or，The Reign of the Repressionist908

Chapter ⅪⅩ.The Fugitives Flee Again908

Chapter ⅩⅩ.The Blaze911

ALICE MOORE DUNBAR NELSON （1875—1935）914

Violets915

I Sit and Sew916

April Is on the Way916

Violets918

WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE （1878—1962）919

The Watchers920

The House of Falling Leaves921

Sic Vita922

Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves923

Quiet Has a Hidden Sound923

FENTON JOHNSON （1888—1958）924

Singing Hallelujia925

Song of the Whirlwind926

My God in Heaven Said to Me926

The Lonely Mother927

Tired928

The Scarlet Woman928

HARLEM RENAISSANCE：1919—1940929

ARTHUR A.SCHOMBURG （1874—1938）937

The Negro Digs Up His Past937

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE （1880—1958）943

A Winter Twilight944

The Black Finger944

For the Candle Light944

When the Green Lies Over the Earth944

Tenebris945

ANNE SPENCER （1882—1975）946

Before the Feast of Shushan947

Dunbar948

At the Carnival948

Lady，Lady949

Letter to My Sister949

The Wife-Woman950

JESSIE REDMON FAUSET （c.1884—1961）951

Plum Bun：A Novel without a Moral952

From Home952

Chapter Ⅰ［Black Philadelphia］952

Chapter Ⅱ ［Sundays］957

ALAIN LOCKE （1886—1954）960

The New Negro961

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON （1886—1966）970

The Heart of a Woman971

Youth971

My Little Dreams971

Lost Illusions972

I Want to Die While You Love Me972

MARCUS GARVEY （1887—1940）972

Africa for the Africans974

The Future as I See It977

CLAUDE MCKAY （1889—1948）981

Harlem Shadows984

If We Must Die984

To the White Fiends984

Africa985

America985

My Mother986

Enslaved986

The White House986

Outcast987

St.Isaac’s Church，Petrograd987

Home to Harlem988

Chapter ⅩⅦ.He Also Loved988

Harlem Runs Wild993

ZORA NEALE HURSTON （1891—1960）996

Sweat999

How It Feels to Be Colored Me1008

The Gilded Six-Bits1011

Characteristics of Negro Expression1019

Mules and Men1032

［Negro Folklore］1032

Their Eyes Were Watching God1041

Chapter 1 ［The Return］1041

Chapter 2 ［Pear Tree］1045

Dust Tracks on a Road1050

Chapter Ⅹ.Research1050

NELLA LARSEN （1893—1964）1065

Quicksand1066

Chapter 12 ［To Denmark］1066

Chapter 13 ［New Life］1069

Chapter 14 ［Talk of Marriage］1073

Chapter 15 ［Proposal］1078

Chapter 16 ［Good-Bye］1084

JEAN TOOMER （1894—1967）1087

Cane1089

GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER （1895—1977）1170

The Negro-Art Hokum1171

RUDOLPH FISHER （1897—1934）1174

The City of Refuge1175

The Caucasian Storms Harlem1187

ERIC WALROND （1898—1966）1195

The Wharf Rats1196

MARITA BONNER （1899—1971）1205

On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored1206

STERLING A.BROWN （1901—1989）1210

Odyssey of Big Boy1211

Long Gone1212

Southern Road1213

Strong Men1215

Memphis Blues1216

Slim Greer1218

Tin Roof Blues1220

Ma Rainey1220

Cabaret1222

Sporting Beasley1224

Sam Smiley1225

GWENDOLYN B.BENNETT （1902—1981）1226

Heritage1227

To a Dark Girl1228

Sonnet —21228

Hatred1229

WALLACE THURMAN （1902—1934）1229

Infants of the Spring1231

Chapter ⅩⅪ ［Harlem Salon］1231

ARNA BONTEMPS （1902—1973）1239

Golgotha Is a Mountain1240

A Black Man Talks of Reaping1242

Nocturne at Bethesda1242

Southern Mansion1244

Miracles1244

A Summer Tragedy1244

LANGSTON HUGHES （1902—1967）1251

The Negro Speaks of Rivers1254

Mother to Son1254

Danse Africaine1255

Jazzonia1255

When Sue Wears Red1256

Dream Variations1256

The Weary Blues1257

I Too1258

A House in Taos1258

Homesick Blues1259

Po’ Boy Blues1260

Gypsy Man1260

Lament over Love1261

Red Silk Stockings1262

Bad Man1262

Song for a Dark Girl1262

Gal’s Cry for a Dying Lover1263

Hard Daddy1263

Sylvester’s Dying Bed1264

Ballad of the Landlord1265

Juke Box Love Song1266

Dream Boogie1266

Harlem1267

Motto1267

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain1267

The Blues I’m Playing1271

The Big Sea1282

When the Negro Was in Vogue1282

Harlem Literati1289

Downtown1293

The Best of Simple1297

Feet Live Their Own Life1297

A Toast to Harlem1299

Jealousy1301

COUNTEE CULLEN （1903—1946）1303

Yet Do I Marvel1305

Tableau1305

Incident1306

Saturday’s Child1306

The Shroud of Color1307

Heritage1311

To John Keats，Poet at Spring Time1314

From the Dark Tower1315

HELENE JOHNSON （1907—1995）1315

Poem1316

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem1317

Remember Not1317

Invocation1317

REALISM，NATURALISM，MODERNISM：1940—19601319

MELVIN B.TOLSON （1900？—1966）1328

An Ex-Judge at the Bar1330

Dark Symphony1331

A Legend of Versailles1334

Libretto for the Republic of Liberia1335

The Birth of John Henry1357

Satchmo1358

DOROTHY WEST （1907—1998）1358

The Living Is Easy1359

Part One1359

Chapter 1.［Cleo］1359

Chapter 2.［Cleo’s High Jinks］1363

Chapter 3.［Cleo Goes North］1370

RICHARD WRIGHT （1908—1960）1376

Blueprint for Negro Writing1380

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow，an Autobiographical Sketch1388

Long Black Song1397

The Man Who Lived Underground1414

Black Boy1450

Chapter ⅩⅢ.［Booklist］1450

Chapter ⅩⅥ.［Chicago］1457

CHESTER B.HIMES （1909—1984）1467

Salute to the Passing1468

ANN PETRY （1911—1997）1476

Like a Winding Sheet1478

The Street1484

Chapter Ⅰ.［The Apartment］1484

ROBERT HAYDEN （1913—1982）1497

The Diver1499

Homage to the Empress of the Blues1500

Middle Passage1501

O Daedalus，Fly Away Home1505

Runagate Runagate1506

Frederick Douglass1508

A Ballad of Remembrance1509

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday1510

Soledad1511

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz1512

A Letter from Phillis Wheatley1514

RALPH ELLISON （1914—1994）1515

Invisible Man1518

Prologue1518

Chapter 1.［Battle Royal］1525

Epilogue1535

Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke1541

The World and the Jug1549

MARGARET WALKER （b.1915）1571

For My People1572

Poppa Chicken1574

For Malcolm Ⅹ1575

Prophets for a New Day1575

GWENDOLYN BROOKS （b.1917）1577

kitchenette building1579

the mother1579

a song in the front yard1580

Sadie and Maud1580

the vacant lot1581

the preacher：ruminates behind the sermon1581

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith1582

Maxie Allen1585

The Rites for Cousin Vit1586

The Children of the Poor1589

The Lovers of the Poor1591

We Real Cool1591

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock1593

A Lovely Love1593

Malcolm Ⅹ1594

Two Dedications1596

Riot1597

The Third Sermon on the Warpland1599

Young Heroes1601

when you have forgotten Sunday：the love story1602

Maud Martha1650

JAMES BALDWIN （1924—1987）1654

Everybody’s Protest Novel1659

Many Thousands Gone1670

Stranger in the Village1679

Notes of a Native Son1694

Sonny’s Blues1717

BOB KAUFMAN （1925—1986）1718

Walking Parker Home1718

Grandfather Was Queer，Too1719

Jail Poems1723

Unanimity Has Been Achieved，Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness1724

War Memoir：Jazz，Don’t Listen to It at Your Own Risk1725

LORRAINE HANSBERRY （1930—1965）1728

A Raisin in the Sun1791

THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT：1960—19701791

MARI EVANS1806

Status Symbol1807

I Am a Black Woman1808

HOYT FULLER （1923—1981）1809

Towards a Black Aesthetic1810

MALCOLM X （El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz） （1925—1965）1816

The Autobiography of Malcolm Ⅹ1817

Chapter 11.Saved1817

JOHN ALFRED WILLIAMS （b.1925）1833

The Man Who Cried I Am1834

1.［In an Outdoor Cafe］1834

2.［Memories，Margrit，and Morphine］1840

3.［Picture of the Writer］1849

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.（1929—1968）1853

Letter from Birmingham Jail15861854

ETHERIDGE KNIGHT （1931—1985）1866

The Idea of Ancestry1867

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane1868

For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide1869

ADDISON GAYLE JR.（1932—1991）1869

The Black Aesthetic1870

Introduction1870

AMIRI BARAKA （b.1934）1877

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note1879

In Memory of Radio1880

A Poem for Black Hearts1881

I don’t love you1881

Three Movements and a Coda1882

SOS1883

Black Art1883

The Invention of Comics1884

Dutchman1885

The Revolutionary Theatre1899

SONIA SANCHEZ （b.1934）1902

homecoming1903

poem at thirty1903

for our lady1904

Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict1905

A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women1905

Part Three1905

Present1905

ED BULLINS （b.1935）1907

Goin’a Buffalo：A Tragifantasy1908

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER （b.1935）1946

Soul on Ice1947

The Primeval Mitosis1947

A.B.SPELLMAN （b.1935）1955

Did John’s Music Kill Him？1955

JAYNE CORTEZ （b.1936）1956

How Long Has Trane Been Gone1957

LARRY NEAL （1937—1981）1959

The Black Arts Movement1960

MAULANA KARENGA （b.1941）1972

Black Art：Mute Matter Given Force and Function1973

HAKI R.MADHUBUTI （b.1942）1977

Back Again，Home1978

Introduction ［to Think Black］1978

The Long Reality1979

Malcolm Spoke / who listened？1980

a poem to complement other poems1981

NIKKI GIOVANNI （b.1943）1982

For Saundra1983

Beautiful Black Men1984

Nikki-Rosa1984

JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON （b.1943）1985

A Solo Song：For Doc1986

QUINCY TROUPE （b.1943）2002

In Texas Grass2003

Conversation Overheard2004

Impressions / of Chicago； For Howlin’ Wolf2006

CAROLYN M.RODGERS （b.1945）2007

Jesus Was Crucified2007

It Is Deep2009

For Sistuhs Wearin’ Straight Hair2010

LITERATURE SINCE 19702011

ALBERT MURRAY （b.1916）2021

Train Whistle Guitar2023

［History Lessons］2023

MAYA ANGELOU （b.1928）2037

Still I Rise2039

My Arkansas2040

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings2040

Chapter 15.［Mrs.Flowers］2040

Chapter 16.［“Mam”］2046

PAULE MARSHALL （b.1929）2050

Reena2052

To Da-Duh，in Memoriam2065

The Making of a Writer：From the Poets in the Kitchen2072

ADRIENNE KENNEDY （b.1931）2079

A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White2081

TONI MORRISON （b.1931）2094

Sula2098

ERNEST J.GAINES （b.1933）2180

The Sky Is Gray2182

AUDRE LORDE （1934—1992）2203

Father Son and Holy Ghost2204

The Winds of Orisha2205

Coal2207

Now That I Am Forever with Child2207

A Litany for Survival2208

The Evening News2209

Poetry Is Not a Luxury2210

COLLEEN MCELROY （b.1935）2212

Pike Street Bus2213

The Griots Who Know Brer Fox2214

Tapestries2216

Caledonia2218

LUCILLE CLIFTON （b.1936）2219

［the bodies broken on］2220

the lost baby poem2221

prayer2222

malcolm2222

［Kali］2222

［if mama / could see］2223

homage to my hips2223

［what spells raccoon to me］2224

1.at jonestown2224

［a woman who loves］2224

wishes for sons2225

move2226

JUNE JORDAN （b.1936）2227

In Memoriam：Martin Luther King，Jr.2229

I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies2230

Poem about My Rights2231

Poem for Guatemala2234

The Female and the Silence of a Man2235

Intifada2236

A New Politics of Sexuality2238

CLARENCE MAJOR （b.1936）2241

Swallow the Lake2243

Round Midnight2244

On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly2246

Chicago Heat2247

LEON FORREST （1937—1997）2250

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden2252

The Epistle of Sweetie Reed2252

MICHAEL S.HARPER （b.1938）2275

Dear John，Dear Coltrane2277

Deathwatch2278

Here Where Coltrane Is2279

Br’er Sterling and the Rocker2280

Grandfather2280

“Goin’ to the Territory”2282

In Hayden’s Collage2283

The Ghost of Soul-Making2284

ISHMAEL REED （b.1938）2285

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra2286

Railroad Bill，a Conjure Man2288

Dualism：In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man2292

Chattanooga2293

Oakland Blues2296

Neo-HooDoo Manifesto2297

Mumbo Jumbo2301

Chapters 1—22301

TONI CADE BAMBARA （1939—1995）2305

Raymond’s Run2307

AL YOUNG （b.1939）2313

A Dance for Ma Rainey2314

Conjugal Visits2315

The Seduction of Light2317

2A.［Ben Franklin］2317

3.［Secondhand Business］2322

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN （b.1941）2325

Brothers and Keepers2328

［Robby’s Version］2328

Damballah2335

SAMUEL R.DELANY （b.1942）2342

Atlantis：Model 1924 ［d］2343

SHERLEYANNE WILLIAMS （1944—1999）2361

The Peacock Poems：12363

I Want Aretha to Set This to Music2363

Tell Martha Not to Moan2365

ALICE WALKER （b.1944）2375

Women2377

Outcast2378

On Stripping Bark from Myself2379

“Good Night，Willie Lee，I’ll See You in the Morning”2380

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens2380

Everyday Use2387

Advancing Luna—and Ida B.Wells2394

The Color Purple2405

［God Love All Them Feelings］2406

AUGUST WILSON （b.1945）2409

Fences2411

MICHELLE CLIFF （b.1946）2462

Within the Veil2463

Columba2466

WANDA COLEMAN （b.1946）2472

Emmett Till2473

Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City2476

be quiet.go away2477

At the Record Hop2477

American Sonnet （10）2478

Bedtime Story2478

Mastectonmy2479

OCTAVIA BUTLER （b.1947）2479

Bloodchild2480

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA （b.1947）2495

Februarv in Svdnev2495

Facing It2496

Sunday Afternoons2496

Banking Potatoes2497

Birds on a Powerline2498

NATHANIEL MACKEY （b.1947）2499

Falso Brilhante2500

Song of the Andoumboulou：82501

Djbot Baghostus’s Run 26.Ⅸ.812502

CHARLES JOHNSON （b.1948）2507

The Education of Mingo2509

NTOZAKE SHANGE （b.1948）2518

From for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf2519

Nappy Edges2521

Bocas：A Daughter’s Geography2523

JAMAICA KINCAID （b.1949）2524

Annie John2526

Chapter Two.The Circling Hand2526

DAVID BRADLEY （b.1950）2535

The Chaneysville Incident2536

［Old Jack］2536

GLORIA NAYLOR （b.1950）2542

The Women of Brewster Place2544

The Two2544

TERRY MCMILLAN （b.1951）2571

Quilting on the Rebound2572

RITA DOVE （b.1952）2582

David Walker （1785—1830）2584

Parsley2585

Receiving the Stigmata2587

THOMAS AND BEULAH2587

The Event2587

Motherhood2588

Daystar2589

The Oriental Ballerina2589

Pastoral2591

MOTHER LOVE2591

Persephone Abducted2591

Statistic：The Witness2592

Mother Love2592

Demeter Mourning2593

History2593

Demeter’s Prayer to Hades2594

WALTER MOSLEY （b.1952）2594

Devil in a Blue Dress2596

Chapter 1.［DeWitt Albright］2596

Chapter 2.［Joppy］2598

Chapter 3.［Daphne Monet］2601

ESSEX HEMPHILL （1957—1995）2608

Conditions2609

ⅩⅪ2609

ⅩⅫ2610

ⅩⅩⅣ2610

TIMELINE：AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT2612

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES2625

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS2649

INDEX2657