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mEssayms Bibliographical Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka ti f Edited by M.Thomas Inge Maurice Duke Jackson R. Bryer *»5 Black American Writers Bibliographical Essays Volume 2 Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka Edited by M. Thomas Inge, Maurice Duke, and Jackson R. Bryer, Black American Writers, a two-volume work, is the most convenient and compre- hensive source of bibliographical and critical information about this long- neglected segment of American litera- ture. The volumes not only identify but also assess the available bibliogra- phies, editions, manuscripts, letters, autobiographies, and biographies of America's black writers, as well as the opinions of hundreds of critics. The present volume focuses on four major writers: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Ba- raka (LeRoi Jones). Volume 1 begins with the early writers (Mammon, Wheatley, and Banneker), continues through the slave narratives and the polemicists (Walker, Douglass, Washington, and Du Bois) to the mod- ern writers (Brown, Chesnutt, Delany, Dunbar, Griggs, Harper, and Webb) and the Harlem Renaissance (featuring Bontemps, Cullen, Johnson, McKay, and Toomer), and ends with a chapter on Langston Hughes. WTi Sate«*«,* ton Pub"c "-""V BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY BLACK AMERICAN WRITERS Bibliographical Essays Volume 2 RICHARD WRIGHT, RALPH ELLISON, JAMES BALDWIN, AND AMIRI BARAKA Black American Writers Bibliographical Essays Volume 2 RICHARD WRIGHT, RALPH ELLISON, JAMES BALDWIN, AND AMIRI BARAKA Edited by THOMAS M. INGE MAURICE DUKE JACKSON BRYER R. New York St. Martin's Press Library of Congress Calalog Card Number: 77-85987 © Copyright 1978 by St. Martin's Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. 21098 fedcba For information, write St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 cover design: Mie's Hora ISBN: 0-312-08295-9 PREFACE The last two decades have witnessed a great proliferation of scholar- ship devoted to the history and culture of Afro-Americans. And out of this increasing recognition of the contribution ofblacks to the develop- ment of this nation has come a significant reassessment ofthe aesthetic and humanistic achievements of black writers. Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays is intended as an apprais- al of the best biographical and critical writings about America's seminal black writers, as well as an identification of manuscript and special resources for continued study. It is also intended to give an overview of the current state of scholarly recognition of the lives and careers of these authors and an appreciation of their works. The coverage is intentionally selective, both in the figures involved and the material examined in each chapter. Yet we feel that, within our self-imposed chronological limit, no major Afro-American literary fig- ure has been overlooked. Volume 1 covers the early black writers ofthe eighteenth century, the slave narratives, the early modern writers, the Harlem Renaissance, and Langston Hughes. Volume 2 focuses on four major twentieth-century black writers: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). A bibliographical survey of the great number of black American writers who have come to prominence since Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, and Baraka would re- quire another volume or volumes and, given the rich and vigorous production of black writers today and the continual emergence of new figures, would perhaps be premature. Our hope is that the bibliographical essays in these volumes, all by specialists on their topics, will aid and encourage further study ofblack American writers and literature. M. Thomas Inge Maurice Duke Jackson R. Bryer Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/blackamericanwriOOmtho
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