The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An AnthologyWilliam L. Andrews University of North Carolina Press, 2006 - 314 pages The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South. Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker. |
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... face you with your snaps . How gladly would I be a book , To your long pocket flaps , That you my face may read and look , And learn the worth of snaps , I'm sorry that I learning lack , To turn you to an almanac , Next year I'll hang ...
... face you with your snaps . How gladly would I be a book , To your long pocket flaps , That you my face may read and look , And learn the worth of snaps , I'm sorry that I learning lack , To turn you to an almanac , Next year I'll hang ...
Page 166
... face . " Don't put any in his face or eyes , " said one.41 So he desisted ; but he , with three other " gentlemen , " whose names I should be happy to record if I could recall them , gave me as nice a coat of tar all over , face only ...
... face . " Don't put any in his face or eyes , " said one.41 So he desisted ; but he , with three other " gentlemen , " whose names I should be happy to record if I could recall them , gave me as nice a coat of tar all over , face only ...
Page 248
... face to face with death , he had experienced a sensation similar to that which drowning men are said to feel - a kind of clarify- ing of the moral faculty , in which the veil of the flesh , with its obscuring passions and prejudices ...
... face to face with death , he had experienced a sensation similar to that which drowning men are said to feel - a kind of clarify- ing of the moral faculty , in which the veil of the flesh , with its obscuring passions and prejudices ...
Contents
GEORGE MOSES HORTON | 43 |
Edited with an introduction by Amanda M Page | 49 |
DAVID WALKER | 69 |
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