TheWiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present.  Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium.

Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studiesSelects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professorsOrganizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movementsIncludes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kindThis second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also bebought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Jarrett is the author ofRepresenting the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) andDeans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks,Princeton University Joanna Brooks,San Diego State University Margo Natalie Crawford,Cornell University Madhu Dubey,University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam,Stanford University Philip Gould,Brown University George B. Hutchinson,Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross,University of Virginia Cherene M. Sherrard-Johnson,University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst,University of Massachusetts, Amherst Werner Sollors,Harvard University John Stauffer,Harvard University Jeffrey Allen Tucker,University of Rochester Ivy G. Wilson,Northwestern University

Editorial Advisory Board xvPreface xviIntroduction xxiPrinciples of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxvAcknowledgments xxviiPart 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.19201940 1Introduction 3 Claude McKay (18891948) 7 Jessie Fauset (18821961) 58 Jean Toomer (18941967) 77 Countée Cullen (19031946) 125 W.E.B. Du Bois (18681963) 137 Rudolph Fisher (18971934) 164 Helene Johnson (19061995) 190 Alain Locke (18851954) 197 Langston Hughes (19021967) 207 George S. Schuyler (18951977) 219 Dorothy West (19071998) 244 Zora Neale Hurston (18911960) 251 Nella Larsen (18911964) 261 Sterling A. Brown (19011989) 318 Richard Wright (19081960) 332Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.19401965 385Gwendolyn Brooks (19172000) 391 Robert Hayden (19131980) 418 Chester Himes (19091984) 426 Ann Petry (19081997) 441 James Baldwin (19241987) 472 Ralph Ellison (19141994) 512 Lorraine Hansberry (19301965) 599Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.19651975 607Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613 Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637 Larry Neal (19371981) 649 Lucille Clifton (19362010) 661 Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672 Toni Cade Bambara (19391995) 680 June Jordan (19362002) 686Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715 Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725 Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733 Audre Lorde (19341992) 761 Octavia Butler (19472006) 778 Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820 Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835 August Wilson (19452005) 869 Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915 Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922 Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947 Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951 Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957 Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978 John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988 Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999 Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005 Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021Glossary 1032Timeline 1040Name Index 1053Subject Index 1058