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Dreaming Out Loud : African American Novelists at Work.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Iowa Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781609383367
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dreaming Out LoudDDC classification:
  • 810.8/0896073
LOC classification:
  • PS508
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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