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Title Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work / [edited by] Horace Porter.
Publisher Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]


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Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. On Becoming African American Novelists -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare (1964) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Introduction to Black Thunder (1968) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- From The Big Sea (1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- From Black Boy (1945) -- James Baldwin -- From The Devil Finds Work (1976) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- From The Quality of Hurt (1973) -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- Boxing on Paper: Thirty-Seven Years Later (1988) -- James Alan McPherson (1943- ) -- On Becoming an American Writer (1978) -- Terry McMillan (1951- ) -- Introduction to Breaking Ice (1990) -- John Edgar Wideman (1941- ) -- From Brothers and Keepers (1984) -- Part Two. On Aesthetics, Craft, and Publication -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Criteria of Negro Art (1926) -- Langston Hughes -- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926) -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) -- About My Work (1988) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- What White Publishers Won't Print (1950) -- John Edgar Wideman -- Preface to Breaking Ice (1990) -- Martha Southgate (1960- ) -- Writers Like Me (2007) -- Charles Johnson (1948- ) -- The Writer's Notebook: A Note on Working Methods (1999) -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) -- For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day (2001) -- Part Three. On Writing Major Novels -- Richard Wright -- From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940) -- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) -- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man" (1981) -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) -- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972) -- Ernest J. Gaines (1933- ) -- Miss Jane and I (1978) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Writing The Color Purple (1982) -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Writing A Lesson Before Dying (2005).
Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993) -- List of Contributors' Novels and Short Stories -- Notes -- Sources and Permissions -- Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781609383367 (electronic bk.)
1609383362 (electronic bk.)
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Subject American fiction -- African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Race awareness in literature.
Alt author Porter, Horace A., 1950- editor.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. On Becoming African American Novelists -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare (1964) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Introduction to Black Thunder (1968) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- From The Big Sea (1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- From Black Boy (1945) -- James Baldwin -- From The Devil Finds Work (1976) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- From The Quality of Hurt (1973) -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- Boxing on Paper: Thirty-Seven Years Later (1988) -- James Alan McPherson (1943- ) -- On Becoming an American Writer (1978) -- Terry McMillan (1951- ) -- Introduction to Breaking Ice (1990) -- John Edgar Wideman (1941- ) -- From Brothers and Keepers (1984) -- Part Two. On Aesthetics, Craft, and Publication -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Criteria of Negro Art (1926) -- Langston Hughes -- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926) -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) -- About My Work (1988) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- What White Publishers Won't Print (1950) -- John Edgar Wideman -- Preface to Breaking Ice (1990) -- Martha Southgate (1960- ) -- Writers Like Me (2007) -- Charles Johnson (1948- ) -- The Writer's Notebook: A Note on Working Methods (1999) -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) -- For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day (2001) -- Part Three. On Writing Major Novels -- Richard Wright -- From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940) -- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) -- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man" (1981) -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) -- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972) -- Ernest J. Gaines (1933- ) -- Miss Jane and I (1978) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Writing The Color Purple (1982) -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Writing A Lesson Before Dying (2005).
Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993) -- List of Contributors' Novels and Short Stories -- Notes -- Sources and Permissions -- Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781609383367 (electronic bk.)
1609383362 (electronic bk.)
Subject American fiction -- African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Race awareness in literature.
Alt author Porter, Horace A., 1950- editor.

Subject American fiction -- African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Race awareness in literature.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. On Becoming African American Novelists -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare (1964) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Introduction to Black Thunder (1968) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- From The Big Sea (1940) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- From Black Boy (1945) -- James Baldwin -- From The Devil Finds Work (1976) -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- From The Quality of Hurt (1973) -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) -- Boxing on Paper: Thirty-Seven Years Later (1988) -- James Alan McPherson (1943- ) -- On Becoming an American Writer (1978) -- Terry McMillan (1951- ) -- Introduction to Breaking Ice (1990) -- John Edgar Wideman (1941- ) -- From Brothers and Keepers (1984) -- Part Two. On Aesthetics, Craft, and Publication -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Criteria of Negro Art (1926) -- Langston Hughes -- The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926) -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) -- About My Work (1988) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Negro Authors and White Publishers (1929) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- What White Publishers Won't Print (1950) -- John Edgar Wideman -- Preface to Breaking Ice (1990) -- Martha Southgate (1960- ) -- Writers Like Me (2007) -- Charles Johnson (1948- ) -- The Writer's Notebook: A Note on Working Methods (1999) -- Walter Mosley (1952- ) -- For Authors, Fragile Ideas Need Loving Every Day (2001) -- Part Three. On Writing Major Novels -- Richard Wright -- From "How 'Bigger' Was Born" (1940) -- Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) -- From "Introduction to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Invisible Man" (1981) -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) -- From "How I Wrote Jubilee" (1972) -- Ernest J. Gaines (1933- ) -- Miss Jane and I (1978) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Writing The Color Purple (1982) -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Writing A Lesson Before Dying (2005).
Toni Morrison (1931- ) -- Nobel Lecture (December 7, 1993) -- List of Contributors' Novels and Short Stories -- Notes -- Sources and Permissions -- Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Porter, Horace A., 1950- editor.
ISBN 9781609383367 (electronic bk.)
1609383362 (electronic bk.)
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