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BLACK AMERICAN WRITING FROM THE NADIR: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition 1877-1915.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Louisiana State University Press, (1992.). Study of post-reconstruction and turn-of-the century black writing, with an emphasis on how race, racism and their consciousness of race, affected their writing - including not only the prominent and well-known writers like Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Charles Chesnutt, but also such less known and minor writers like Daniel Webster Davis, Sutton Griggs, Ruth Todd and others. Photographs. 272 pp. with index. ISBN: 0-8071-18060.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 26467More details Price: $16.50 -
EARLY BLACK AMERICAN POETS: Selections with Biographical and Critical Introductions
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm [William] C. Brown Company, Publishers, (1969.). First edition - An important anthology arranged by type of poetry,rather than strictly chronologically - includes a generous selection of poems from most of the writers. Forms of poetry include "orator poets" (Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper and others), formalist poets (Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, George Marion McLlelan, and Henrietta Cordelia Ray) ; romantic poets (John Boyd, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Seamen Cotter, several Creole poets, and others) and dialect poets (James Edwin Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Elliott B. Henderson, J. Mord Allen and James B. Carrothers.) Includes a general introduction by Robinson, several appendices, bibliography, index. xvii, 275 pp. ISBN: 0-697039536.
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, some rubbing to the covers.)
Book ID: 33559More details Price: $30.00