Black Voices [Paperback]

“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James Baldwin
 
Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism,Black Voicescaptures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today’s African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States.
 
Contributors Include:
Sterling A. Brown
Charles W. Chesnutt
John Henrik Clarke
Countee Cullen
Frederick Douglass
Paul Laurence Dunbar
James Weldon Johnson
Naomi Long Madgett
Paule Marshall
Clarence Major
Claude McKay
Ann Petry
Dudley Randall
J. Saunders Redding
Jean Toomer
Darwin T. Turner


As well as:
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Frank London Brown
Arthur P. Davis
Frank Marshall Davis
Owen Dodson
Mari Evans
Rudolph Fisher
Dan Georgakas
Robert Hayden
Frank Horne
Blyden Jackson
Lance Jeffers
Fenton Johnson
George E. Kent
Alain Locke
Diane Oliver
Stanley Sanders
Richard G. Stern
Sterling Stuckey
Melvin B. Tolson
 Introduction

I. Fiction

Charles W. Chestnutt
Baxter's Procrustes

Jean Toomer
Karintha
Blood-Burning Moon

Rudolph Fisher
Common Meter

Arna Bontemps
A Summer Tragedy

Langston Hughes
Tales of Simple:
Foreword: Who Is Simple?
Feet Live Their Own Life
Temptation
Bop
Census
Coffee Break
Cracker Prayer
Promulgations

Richard Wright
The Man Who Lived Underground

Ann Petry
In Darkness and Confusion