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Brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from. -- Russ Castronovo, University of Miami
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, at Harvard University. He is the author of Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race (with Cornel West); Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans. He is general editor (with the late Nellie Y. McKay) of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature; editor-in-chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center (online); editor of The African-American Century (with Cornel West); Encarta Africana (with Kwame Anthony Appiah); and The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Craft; African American National Biography (with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham) and The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin (with Hollis Robbins). For PBS, Professor Gates has written and produced several documentaries, among them African American Lives, series 1 and 2, and America Behind the Color Line.
Nellie Y. McKay (Ph.D. Harvard), General Editor. Professor of American and Afro-American Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Associate editor of the African American Review; author of Jean Toomer—the Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894–1936; editor of Critical Essays on Toni Morrison; co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Beloved—A Casebook, and Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison.
William L. Andrews (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Editor, "The Literature of Slavery and Freedom," Co-Editor, "the Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance." E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. General editor of the Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography series and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Other works include The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865; Sisters of the Spirit; Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass; and Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance.
Houston A. Baker, Jr. (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles), Editor, "The Black Arts Era." George D. and Susan Fox Beischer Professor of English, Duke University. Editor of American Literature; Editor of the anthology Black Literature in America and author of three books of poetry. Other works include Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and The Black Aesthetic; Workings of the Spirit: A Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing; Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy; Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory; Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Frances Smith Foster (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Co-Editor, "The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance." Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Emory University. Author of Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. Co-editor of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature and the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor of several works, including Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes.
A former fellow of the Bunting Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Deborah E. McDowell is a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Robert G. O’Meally (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor, "The Vernacular Tradition." Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University. Author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison and the biography Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, and editor of the essay collection History and Memory in African American Culture. Currently editing an essay collection titled The Jazz Cadence of American Culture.
Arnold Rampersad (Ph.D. Harvard) is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is co-editor (with Deborah E. McDowell) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and editor of the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. He is the author of the two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and co-author (with Arthur Ashe) of Days of Grace: A Memoir. He is also editor of “The Harlem Renaissance.”
Hortense Spillers (Ph.D. Brandeis), Co-Editor, "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism." Frederick J. Whiton Chair of English, Cornell University. Editor of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text; co-editor (with Marjorie Pryse) of Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and the Literary Tradition, and an editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Cheryl A. Wall (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor, "Literature since 1975." Professor and Chair of English, Rutgers University. Author of Women of the Harlem Renaissance; editor of Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings, and Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.
Nellie Y. McKay (Ph.D. Harvard), General Editor. Professor of American and Afro-American Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Associate editor of the African American Review; author of Jean Toomer—the Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894–1936; editor of Critical Essays on Toni Morrison; co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Beloved—A Casebook, and Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison.
William L. Andrews (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Editor, "The Literature of Slavery and Freedom," Co-Editor, "the Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance." E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. General editor of the Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography series and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Other works include The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865; Sisters of the Spirit; Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass; and Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance.
Houston A. Baker, Jr. (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles), Editor, "The Black Arts Era." George D. and Susan Fox Beischer Professor of English, Duke University. Editor of American Literature; Editor of the anthology Black Literature in America and author of three books of poetry. Other works include Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and The Black Aesthetic; Workings of the Spirit: A Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing; Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy; Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory; Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Frances Smith Foster (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego), Co-Editor, "The Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance." Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Emory University. Author of Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 and Witnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative. Co-editor of the Oxford Companion to African American Literature and the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Editor of several works, including Minnie’s Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes.
A former fellow of the Bunting Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Deborah E. McDowell is a professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Robert G. O’Meally (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor, "The Vernacular Tradition." Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Columbia University. Author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison and the biography Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, and editor of the essay collection History and Memory in African American Culture. Currently editing an essay collection titled The Jazz Cadence of American Culture.
Arnold Rampersad (Ph.D. Harvard) is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is co-editor (with Deborah E. McDowell) of Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and editor of the definitive Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. He is the author of the two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson: A Biography, and co-author (with Arthur Ashe) of Days of Grace: A Memoir. He is also editor of “The Harlem Renaissance.”
Hortense Spillers (Ph.D. Brandeis), Co-Editor, "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism." Frederick J. Whiton Chair of English, Cornell University. Editor of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text; co-editor (with Marjorie Pryse) of Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction and the Literary Tradition, and an editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.
Cheryl A. Wall (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor, "Literature since 1975." Professor and Chair of English, Rutgers University. Author of Women of the Harlem Renaissance; editor of Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings, and Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women.
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I noticed that someone asked for a review of this piece, here is something I did when the first edition came out in 1997, for the newspaper I worked for at the time, the Durham Herald-Sun. Published 01/05/97
African-American lit anthology's `heavy' - UNC professor helped as canon was decided for long-awaited book
Byline: ERNIE SUGGS The Herald-Sun
When discussing African-American literature, the name Victor Sejour doesn't stand out as readily as the likes of Harriet Jacobs, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin.
But the work of the expatriate who left New Orleans for Paris at the age of 20 has just rewritten history. His short story, ``Le Mulatre,'' (The Mulatto) published in France in 1837, now is considered the oldest known work of fiction by an African-American writer.
The piece was discovered in 1992 by UNC English Professor William L. Andrews for special inclusion in the new ``Norton Anthology of African American Literature.''
Sejour's work is among dozens by African-American writers, poets, preachers, essayists, singers and even rappers included in the massive tome, which was published Dec. 16.
``Heavy,'' said Duke University's director of Afro-American studies, Karla Holloway, in describing the new anthology.
``This is exactly what we have been waiting for,'' Holloway said. ``It is thorough, the coverage is impressive and it has weight, literally and physically.''
At 2,655 pages, the single, 21/2-pound volume is indeed heavy.
But the weight of what is on the pages may be enough to change the way African-American literature is perceived for generations.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B DuBois professor of humanities and chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard University, was one of two general editors for the book. Gates, who also served briefly as head of Duke University's Afro-American studies program, called the anthology a ``canon'' and said that there never would be another excuse for not being able to find African-American literature.
Literary scholars are hailing the text as a breakthrough and calling it revolutionary. College professors are lining up to get it and preparing syllabi to teach it.
``It is the most important anthology of African-American literature that has been published in the 20th century,'' said Andrews, E. Maynard Adams professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ``Not that there haven't been magnificent anthologies -- and this isn't the first one -- but this is the most important because it is the anthology for the second black literary renaissance of the 20th century.''
The anthology is the culmination of 10 years of research by a team of editors and scholars. The team's research dates back to a 1746 poem by Lucy Terry called ``Bar Fights.''
``In North Carolina, it has always been something that people have asked me about. `When is it coming out? When is it coming out?' '' said Steven Hoge, field editor for New York-based W.W. Norton & Co., which published the anthology. ``I would always say, `Any year now.' ''
So diverse is the book that it includes the work of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, rap-music godfathers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Phillis Wheatley -- a slave brought to America from Senegal at the age of 8 who became the first African-American to publish a book in English.
``This is trying to establish a canon,'' said Hoge, who works out of Chapel Hill.
``As a publisher of anthologies, we've always taken the anthology business very seriously.''
Many anthologies of African-American writing have been published -- including ``Les Cenelles'' in 1845 and ``Black Writers of America'' in 1972 -- but this is the first one W.W. Norton has published.
There are now 10 ``Nortons,'' all of which are among the most widely used college literature texts. But the ``Norton Anthology of African-American Literature'' is accompanied by a compact disc, which includes speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and jazz pieces by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
Arlene Clift-Pellow, chairwoman of N.C. Central University's department of English, said her department currently is reviewing the book for likely inclusion in students' studies.
Holloway said that she will begin teaching Duke students from the text next fall in her introduction to African-American literature classes, and Andrews said that he will start teaching UNC students from it this semester.
``This is a more exciting time,'' Andrews said. ``I had never used an anthology before and I am looking forward to teaching from this one.''
Sejour story hunted
Andrews' students will be lucky to work closely with someone who worked on the book's production. Andrews, an expert on African-American literature before 1920, was one of nine section or chapter editors.
For his chapter, ``The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865,'' Andrews was responsible for selecting, editing and writing the annotations and introductions for all of the works included.
One of the most fascinating finds, by far, was that of Sejour's story.
``Since I am one of the editors of the volume, I wanted to include Sejour's work,'' Andrews said. ``But it was a question of could I find it.''
Andrews said Sejour's short story was known only by a few scholars, and it never had been translated to English.
``Le Mulatre'' was the only piece of fiction that Sejour had ever written, having devoted the rest of his life to drama. He became famous in Europe and never returned to the United States,'' Andrews said. ``Here he is largely forgotten.''
Andrews said that he and a French-speaking colleague, Philip Barnard of the University of Kansas, traveled to France and found the story in the obscure 1837 journal ``La Revue des Colonies'' at the Bibliotheque National in Paris.
``It wasn't so hard to find because Bibliotheque National is such a magnificent library,'' Andrews said. ``The hardest part was getting the service done.''
Andrews said that until this discovery, it had been assumed that the oldest piece of fiction written by an African-American was Frederick Douglass' ``The Heroic Slave.''
That piece, which was written in 1853, was only part fiction. Part was based on a historical event.
``Sejour's story is wholly a fictional tale, and it pre-dates Douglass' by 16 years,'' Andrews said. ``With this story, it moves the history of African-American literature back to 1837.''
Andrews said that his only concerns about the piece were what it was about and whether the story fit among the other writers of the era.
``Le Mulatre'' is the story of a slave born of the rape of a slave by her master. Later, the master rapes his son's wife, and the slave kills him in revenge.
Andrews describes Sejour's work in ``Le Mulatre,'' as a cross between Douglass and Edgar Allen Poe. Like Poe's work, the story is gruesome and exhibits extreme psychotic states of mind, Andrews said.
``Then, like Douglass, it's profoundly concerned with freedom and slavery,'' said Andrews, who worked at the University of Kansas before coming to UNC four months ago.
Other strengths cited
Holloway, a science fiction buff, said she is most impressed with the book's inclusion of Octavia Butler, whose ``Bloodchild'' appears in the ``Literature Since 1970'' chapter.
``Bloodchild'' is a short work of fiction by Butler that challenges contemporary ideas about gender and race in a futuristic way.
``I also like the inclusion of the Black Arts Movement,'' said Holloway, referring to the chapter focusing on 1960 through 1970.
``We have a hard time finding a coherent, well-integrated discussion on it. Now we have one.''
But Holloway, like the book's co-editor Nellie Y. McKay, a professor of American and Afro-American literature at the University of Wisconsin, feels that the section on rap music doesn't belong.
``It's an interesting discussion,'' said Holloway, who attended the book's coming-out party at the Modern Language Convention. ``I just would have argued against it.''
Holloway said the wait for the book has been well worth it and she looks forward to the publication of more African-American anthologies, which are in the works.
``A lot of people see this as competition, but the more choices that we have as a profession, the clearer the weight and substance,'' she said.
African-American lit anthology's `heavy' - UNC professor helped as canon was decided for long-awaited book
Byline: ERNIE SUGGS The Herald-Sun
When discussing African-American literature, the name Victor Sejour doesn't stand out as readily as the likes of Harriet Jacobs, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes and James Baldwin.
But the work of the expatriate who left New Orleans for Paris at the age of 20 has just rewritten history. His short story, ``Le Mulatre,'' (The Mulatto) published in France in 1837, now is considered the oldest known work of fiction by an African-American writer.
The piece was discovered in 1992 by UNC English Professor William L. Andrews for special inclusion in the new ``Norton Anthology of African American Literature.''
Sejour's work is among dozens by African-American writers, poets, preachers, essayists, singers and even rappers included in the massive tome, which was published Dec. 16.
``Heavy,'' said Duke University's director of Afro-American studies, Karla Holloway, in describing the new anthology.
``This is exactly what we have been waiting for,'' Holloway said. ``It is thorough, the coverage is impressive and it has weight, literally and physically.''
At 2,655 pages, the single, 21/2-pound volume is indeed heavy.
But the weight of what is on the pages may be enough to change the way African-American literature is perceived for generations.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B DuBois professor of humanities and chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard University, was one of two general editors for the book. Gates, who also served briefly as head of Duke University's Afro-American studies program, called the anthology a ``canon'' and said that there never would be another excuse for not being able to find African-American literature.
Literary scholars are hailing the text as a breakthrough and calling it revolutionary. College professors are lining up to get it and preparing syllabi to teach it.
``It is the most important anthology of African-American literature that has been published in the 20th century,'' said Andrews, E. Maynard Adams professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ``Not that there haven't been magnificent anthologies -- and this isn't the first one -- but this is the most important because it is the anthology for the second black literary renaissance of the 20th century.''
The anthology is the culmination of 10 years of research by a team of editors and scholars. The team's research dates back to a 1746 poem by Lucy Terry called ``Bar Fights.''
``In North Carolina, it has always been something that people have asked me about. `When is it coming out? When is it coming out?' '' said Steven Hoge, field editor for New York-based W.W. Norton & Co., which published the anthology. ``I would always say, `Any year now.' ''
So diverse is the book that it includes the work of 1993 Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, rap-music godfathers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Phillis Wheatley -- a slave brought to America from Senegal at the age of 8 who became the first African-American to publish a book in English.
``This is trying to establish a canon,'' said Hoge, who works out of Chapel Hill.
``As a publisher of anthologies, we've always taken the anthology business very seriously.''
Many anthologies of African-American writing have been published -- including ``Les Cenelles'' in 1845 and ``Black Writers of America'' in 1972 -- but this is the first one W.W. Norton has published.
There are now 10 ``Nortons,'' all of which are among the most widely used college literature texts. But the ``Norton Anthology of African-American Literature'' is accompanied by a compact disc, which includes speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and jazz pieces by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
Arlene Clift-Pellow, chairwoman of N.C. Central University's department of English, said her department currently is reviewing the book for likely inclusion in students' studies.
Holloway said that she will begin teaching Duke students from the text next fall in her introduction to African-American literature classes, and Andrews said that he will start teaching UNC students from it this semester.
``This is a more exciting time,'' Andrews said. ``I had never used an anthology before and I am looking forward to teaching from this one.''
Sejour story hunted
Andrews' students will be lucky to work closely with someone who worked on the book's production. Andrews, an expert on African-American literature before 1920, was one of nine section or chapter editors.
For his chapter, ``The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865,'' Andrews was responsible for selecting, editing and writing the annotations and introductions for all of the works included.
One of the most fascinating finds, by far, was that of Sejour's story.
``Since I am one of the editors of the volume, I wanted to include Sejour's work,'' Andrews said. ``But it was a question of could I find it.''
Andrews said Sejour's short story was known only by a few scholars, and it never had been translated to English.
``Le Mulatre'' was the only piece of fiction that Sejour had ever written, having devoted the rest of his life to drama. He became famous in Europe and never returned to the United States,'' Andrews said. ``Here he is largely forgotten.''
Andrews said that he and a French-speaking colleague, Philip Barnard of the University of Kansas, traveled to France and found the story in the obscure 1837 journal ``La Revue des Colonies'' at the Bibliotheque National in Paris.
``It wasn't so hard to find because Bibliotheque National is such a magnificent library,'' Andrews said. ``The hardest part was getting the service done.''
Andrews said that until this discovery, it had been assumed that the oldest piece of fiction written by an African-American was Frederick Douglass' ``The Heroic Slave.''
That piece, which was written in 1853, was only part fiction. Part was based on a historical event.
``Sejour's story is wholly a fictional tale, and it pre-dates Douglass' by 16 years,'' Andrews said. ``With this story, it moves the history of African-American literature back to 1837.''
Andrews said that his only concerns about the piece were what it was about and whether the story fit among the other writers of the era.
``Le Mulatre'' is the story of a slave born of the rape of a slave by her master. Later, the master rapes his son's wife, and the slave kills him in revenge.
Andrews describes Sejour's work in ``Le Mulatre,'' as a cross between Douglass and Edgar Allen Poe. Like Poe's work, the story is gruesome and exhibits extreme psychotic states of mind, Andrews said.
``Then, like Douglass, it's profoundly concerned with freedom and slavery,'' said Andrews, who worked at the University of Kansas before coming to UNC four months ago.
Other strengths cited
Holloway, a science fiction buff, said she is most impressed with the book's inclusion of Octavia Butler, whose ``Bloodchild'' appears in the ``Literature Since 1970'' chapter.
``Bloodchild'' is a short work of fiction by Butler that challenges contemporary ideas about gender and race in a futuristic way.
``I also like the inclusion of the Black Arts Movement,'' said Holloway, referring to the chapter focusing on 1960 through 1970.
``We have a hard time finding a coherent, well-integrated discussion on it. Now we have one.''
But Holloway, like the book's co-editor Nellie Y. McKay, a professor of American and Afro-American literature at the University of Wisconsin, feels that the section on rap music doesn't belong.
``It's an interesting discussion,'' said Holloway, who attended the book's coming-out party at the Modern Language Convention. ``I just would have argued against it.''
Holloway said the wait for the book has been well worth it and she looks forward to the publication of more African-American anthologies, which are in the works.
``A lot of people see this as competition, but the more choices that we have as a profession, the clearer the weight and substance,'' she said.
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I first bought this book for a class in college. Some of the excerpts, poems, and novels in this book I read in other classes, but I found that having all of them together in one anthology is perfect. Its progression from slave narratives that begin in Africa up to early hip-hop of the 1990's keeps the reader intrigued, moving along, following the struggle in America. There is simply too much to go over in a little review, but I can definitely say that this is a must have if you are interested in reading African American Literature...I just wish I kept my cheaper college copy! Oh well, at least I have a new copy this time ; )
Richard Beckham II, author of the coming of age novel, "Frog in the Pot" and fantasy novel, "The Tale of Mu" available on Amazon.com. Frog in the Pot The Tale of Mu
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This book was "required" reading for my college English course - African American Literature. It is full of amazing works that in my lifetime were hidden from view (I am a senior, that is in age, not as in school level). It is a rather large book for just casual reading. However, it is a wonderful book to use as a reference. I know it will stay on our bookshelf until the pages turn yellow and crumble. As far as Amazon is concerned, the price was good and the delivery time great.
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