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THE VERNACULAR TRADITION 5

［Entries marked·are included on the Audio Companion］ 5

SPIRITUALS 5

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord？ 7

City Called Heaven 8

God’s A-Gonna Trouble the Water 8

Walk Together Children 9

I Know Moon-Rise 9

I’m A-Rollin’ 10

I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned 10

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel？ 10

Soon I Will Be Done 11

No More Auction Block 12

Swing Low，Sweet Chariot 13

Steal Away to Jesus 13

Go Down，Moses 14

Been in the Storm So Long 14

Oh，Freedom！ 15

GOSPEL 16

This Little Light of Mine 17

Down by the Riverside 18

Freedom in the Air 20

Take My Hand，Precious Lord 20

Peace Be Still 21

Stand by Me 21

THE BLUES 22

Yellow Dog Blues 23

St.Louis Blues 24

Beale Street Blues 25

Down-Hearted Blues 26

See，See Rider 27

Prove It on Me Blues 27

Gulf Coast Blues 28

Trouble in Mind 29

Backwater Blues 29

In the House Blues 30

How Long Blues 31

Hellhound on My Trail 31

It’s a Low Down Dirty Shame 32

Good Morning，Blues 33

Sent for You Yesterday 34

Going to Chicago Blues 34

Fine and Mellow 34

Hoochie Coochie 35

Sunnyland 36

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS，BALLADS，AND WORK SONGS 37

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS 38

［We raise de wheat］ 38

Me and My Captain 38

Promises of Freedom 39

Jack and Dinah Want Freedom 39

Run，Nigger，Run 40

Learn to Count 40

Another Man Done Gone 40

You May Go But This Will Bring You Back 41

BALLADS 41

Poor Lazarus 41

The Signifying Monkey 42

Wild Negro Bill 44

John Henry 45

Frankie and Johnny 48

Railroad Bill 49

Stackolee 50

Sinking of the Titanic 51

Shine and the Titanic 51

WORK SONGS 52

Pick a Bale of Cotton 52

Go Down，Old Hannah 53

Can’t You Line It？ 54

JAZZ 55

Andy Razaf：（What Did I Do to Be So） Black and Blue？ 57

Duke Ellington：It Don’t Mean a Thing （If It Ain’t Got That Swing） 58

King Pleasure：Parker’s Mood 59

RAP 60

Gil Scott-Heron：The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 61

Grandmaster Flash ＆ the Furious Five：The Message 62

Public Enemy：Don’t Believe the Hype 65

Queen Latifah：The Evil That Men Do 68

SERMONS 69

God 71

C.L.Franklin：The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest 71

Zora Neale Hurston：［Faith hasn’t got no eyes］ 78

Martin Luther King：I Have a Dream 80

Martin Luther King：I’ve Been to the Mountaintop 83

Malcolm Ⅹ：The Ballot or the Bullet 90

FOLKTALES 102

All God’s Chillen Had Wings 103

Big Talk 105

Deer Hunting Story 106

How to Write a Letter 107

“’Member Youse a Nigger” 107

“Ah’ll Beatcher Makin’ Money” 108

Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest 111

Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men 111

“De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard” 114

The Ventriloquist 114

You Talk Too Much，Anyhow 115

The King Buzzard 116

A Flying Fool 117

Bur Rabbit in Red Hill Churchyard 118

Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again 119

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story 120

How Mr.Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr.Fox 121

The Awful Fate of Mr.Wolf 123

What the Rabbit Learned 125

THE LITERATURE OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM：1746—1865 127

LUCY TERRY （c.1730—1821） 137

Bars Fight 137

OLAUDAH EQUIANO （c.1745—1797） 138

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano，or Gustavus Vassa，the African，Written by Himself 140

Volume Ⅰ 140

Chapter Ⅰ 141

Chapter Ⅱ 151

From Chapter Ⅲ 161

From Chapter Ⅳ 164

PHILLIS WHEATLEY （1753？—1784） 164

POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS，RELIGIOUS AND MORAL 167

Preface 167

［Letter Sent by the Author’s Master to the Publisher］ 167

［To the Publick］ 168

To Maecenas 169

To the University of Cambridge，in New-England 170

On Being Brought from Africa to America 171

On the Death of the Rev.Mr.George Whitefield.1770 171

To the Right Honourable William，Earl of Dartmouth 172

On Imagination 173

ToS.M.，a Young African Painter，on Seeing His Works 175

To Samson Occom 176

To His Excellency General Washington 176

DAVID WALKER （1785—1830） 178

David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles； Together with a Preamble，to the Coloured Citizens of the World 179

Preamble 179

Article Ⅰ.Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery 182

GEORGE MOSES HORTON （1797？—1883？） 190

The Lover’s Farewell 191

On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet’s Freedom 192

Division of an Estate 193

The Creditor to His Proud Debtor 194

George Moses Horton，Myself 195

SOJOURNER TRUTH （1797—1883） 196

Ar’n’t I a Woman？Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron，Ohio，1851 198

From The Anti-Slavery Bugle，June 21，1851 198

From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth，1878 199

MARIA W.STEWART （1803—1879） 201

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality，the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build 202

Introduction 202

Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall 204

HARRIET JACOBS （c.1813—1897） 207

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 209

Preface 209

Ⅰ.Childhood 210

Ⅱ.The New Master and Mistress 212

Ⅴ.The Trials of Girlhood 216

Ⅹ.A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life 218

ⅪⅤ.Another Link to Life 222

ⅩⅦ.The Flight 224

ⅩⅪ.The Loophole of Retreat 226

ⅩⅩⅨ.Preparations for Escape 229

ⅩⅩⅩⅨ.The Confession 235

ⅩL.The Fugitive Slave Law 236

ⅩLⅠ.Free at Last 240

WILLIAM WELLS BROWN （1814？—1884） 245

Narrative of William W.Brown，a Fugitive Slave 247

Chapter Ⅴ 247

From Chapter Ⅵ 249

Clotel； or，The President’s Daughter 255

Chapter Ⅰ.The Negro Sale 255

Chapter Ⅱ.Going to the South 261

Chapter Ⅳ.The Quadroon’s Home 265

Chapter ⅩⅤ.To-Day a Mistress，To-Morrow a Slave 267

Chapter ⅩⅨ.Escape of Clotel 269

ADA ［SARAH L.FORTEN］ （1814—1898？） 277

Lines Suggested on Reading “An Appeal to Christian Women of the South，” by A.E.Grimke 277

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET （1815—1882） 279

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America 280

VICTOR SEJOUR （1817—1874） 286

The Mulatto 287

FREDERICK DOUGLASS （1818—1895） 299

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass，an American Slave，Written by Himself 302

My Bondage and My Freedom 369

Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ.Introduced to the Abolitionists 369

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Twenty-One Months in Great Britain 373

From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July？：An Address Delivered in Rochester，New York，on 5 July 1852 379

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 391

Second Part From Chapter ⅩⅤ.Weighed in the Balance 391

Third Part Chapter Ⅰ.Later Life 397

JAMES M.WHITFIELD （1822—1871） 401

America 402

Yes！ Strike Again That Sounding String 405

Self-Reliance 406

FRANCES E.W.HARPER （1825—1911） 408

Ethiopia 412

Eliza Harris 412

The Slave Mother 414

Vashti 415

Bury Me in a Free Land 417

Aunt Chloe’s Politics 418

Learning to Read 418

A Double Standard 419

Songs for the People 421

An Appeal to My Country Women 422

The Two Offers 423

Our Greatest Want 431

Fancy Etchings 432

［Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations］ 432

［Dangerous Economies］ 434

Woman’s Political Future 436

HARRIET E.WILSON （1828？—1863？） 439

Our Nig； or，Sketches from the Life of a Free Black，in a Two-StoWhite House，North 441

Preface 441

Chapter Ⅰ.Mag Smith，My Mother 441

Chapter Ⅱ.My Father’s Death 444

Chapter Ⅲ.A New Home for Me 447

From Chapter ⅤⅢ.Visitor and Departure 452

ChapterⅩ.Perplexities.—Another Death 455

ChapterⅫ.The Winding Up of the Matter 458

LITERATURE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE：1865—1919 461

CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE （1837—1914） 472

A Parting Hymn 473

Journals 474

From Journal One 474

From Journal Three 480

BOOKER T.WASHINGTON （1856—1915） 488

Up From Slavery 490

Chapter Ⅰ.A Slave among Slaves 490

Chapter Ⅱ.Boyhood Days 498

Chapter Ⅲ.The Struggle for an Education 505

Chapter ⅩⅣ.The Atlanta Exposition Address 513

CHARLES W.CHESNUTT （1858—1932） 522

The Goophered Grapevine 523

The Passing of Grandison 532

The Wife of His Youth 545

ANNA JULIA COOPER （1858？—1964） 553

Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race 554

PAULINE E.HOPKINS （1859—1930） 569

Contending Forces 570

Chapter Ⅷ.The Sewing-Circle 570

Chapter ⅩⅤ.Will Smith’s Defense of His Race 577

Famous Men of the Negro Race 581

Booker T.Washington 581

Famous Women of the Negro Race 588

Literary Workers （Frances E.W.Harper） 588

Letter from Cordelia A.Condict and Pauline Hopkins’s Reply（March 1903） 593

IDA B.WELLS-BARNETT （1862—1931） 595

A Red Record 596

Chapter Ⅰ.The Case Stated 596

Chapter Ⅹ.The Remedy 602

W.E.B.DU BOIS （1868—1963） 606

A Litany of Atlanta 609

The Song of the Smoke 612

The Souls of Black Folk 613

The Damnation of Women 740

Criteria of Negro Art 752

Two Novels 759

JAMES D.CORROTHERS （1869—1917） 760

The Snapping of the Bow 762

Me ’n’ Dunbar 763

Paul Laurence Dunbar 764

At the Closed Gate of Justice 764

An Indignation Dinner 765

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON （1871—1938） 766

Sence You Went Away 768

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing 768

O Black and Unknown Bards 769

Fifty Years 770

Brothers 773

The Creation 775

My City 777

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 777

The Book of American Negro Poetry 861

Preface 861

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR （1872—1906） 884

Ode to Ethiopia 886

Worn Out 887

A Negro Love Song 888

The Colored Soldiers 889

An Ante-Bellum Sermon 891

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes 893

Not They Who Soar 894

When Malindy Sings 894

We Wear the Mask 896

Little Brown Baby 897

Her Thought and His 897

A Cabin Tale 898

Sympathy 900

Dinah Kneading Dough 901

The Haunted Oak 901

Douglass 903

Philosophy 903

Black Samson of Brandywine 904

The Poet 905

The Fourth of July and Race Outrages 905

SUTTON E.GRIGGS （1872—1933） 906

The Hindered Hand； or，The Reign of the Repressionist 908

Chapter ⅪⅩ.The Fugitives Flee Again 908

Chapter ⅩⅩ.The Blaze 911

ALICE MOORE DUNBAR NELSON （1875—1935） 914

Violets 915

I Sit and Sew 916

April Is on the Way 916

Violets 918

WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE （1878—1962） 919

The Watchers 920

The House of Falling Leaves 921

Sic Vita 922

Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves 923

Quiet Has a Hidden Sound 923

FENTON JOHNSON （1888—1958） 924

Singing Hallelujia 925

Song of the Whirlwind 926

My God in Heaven Said to Me 926

The Lonely Mother 927

Tired 928

The Scarlet Woman 928

HARLEM RENAISSANCE：1919—1940 929

ARTHUR A.SCHOMBURG （1874—1938） 937

The Negro Digs Up His Past 937

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE （1880—1958） 943

A Winter Twilight 944

The Black Finger 944

For the Candle Light 944

When the Green Lies Over the Earth 944

Tenebris 945

ANNE SPENCER （1882—1975） 946

Before the Feast of Shushan 947

Dunbar 948

At the Carnival 948

Lady，Lady 949

Letter to My Sister 949

The Wife-Woman 950

JESSIE REDMON FAUSET （c.1884—1961） 951

Plum Bun：A Novel without a Moral 952

From Home 952

Chapter Ⅰ［Black Philadelphia］ 952

Chapter Ⅱ ［Sundays］ 957

ALAIN LOCKE （1886—1954） 960

The New Negro 961

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON （1886—1966） 970

The Heart of a Woman 971

Youth 971

My Little Dreams 971

Lost Illusions 972

I Want to Die While You Love Me 972

MARCUS GARVEY （1887—1940） 972

Africa for the Africans 974

The Future as I See It 977

CLAUDE MCKAY （1889—1948） 981

Harlem Shadows 984

If We Must Die 984

To the White Fiends 984

Africa 985

America 985

My Mother 986

Enslaved 986

The White House 986

Outcast 987

St.Isaac’s Church，Petrograd 987

Home to Harlem 988

Chapter ⅩⅦ.He Also Loved 988

Harlem Runs Wild 993

ZORA NEALE HURSTON （1891—1960） 996

Sweat 999

How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1008

The Gilded Six-Bits 1011

Characteristics of Negro Expression 1019

Mules and Men 1032

［Negro Folklore］ 1032

Their Eyes Were Watching God 1041

Chapter 1 ［The Return］ 1041

Chapter 2 ［Pear Tree］ 1045

Dust Tracks on a Road 1050

Chapter Ⅹ.Research 1050

NELLA LARSEN （1893—1964） 1065

Quicksand 1066

Chapter 12 ［To Denmark］ 1066

Chapter 13 ［New Life］ 1069

Chapter 14 ［Talk of Marriage］ 1073

Chapter 15 ［Proposal］ 1078

Chapter 16 ［Good-Bye］ 1084

JEAN TOOMER （1894—1967） 1087

Cane 1089

GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER （1895—1977） 1170

The Negro-Art Hokum 1171

RUDOLPH FISHER （1897—1934） 1174

The City of Refuge 1175

The Caucasian Storms Harlem 1187

ERIC WALROND （1898—1966） 1195

The Wharf Rats 1196

MARITA BONNER （1899—1971） 1205

On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored 1206

STERLING A.BROWN （1901—1989） 1210

Odyssey of Big Boy 1211

Long Gone 1212

Southern Road 1213

Strong Men 1215

Memphis Blues 1216

Slim Greer 1218

Tin Roof Blues 1220

Ma Rainey 1220

Cabaret 1222

Sporting Beasley 1224

Sam Smiley 1225

GWENDOLYN B.BENNETT （1902—1981） 1226

Heritage 1227

To a Dark Girl 1228

Sonnet —2 1228

Hatred 1229

WALLACE THURMAN （1902—1934） 1229

Infants of the Spring 1231

Chapter ⅩⅪ ［Harlem Salon］ 1231

ARNA BONTEMPS （1902—1973） 1239

Golgotha Is a Mountain 1240

A Black Man Talks of Reaping 1242

Nocturne at Bethesda 1242

Southern Mansion 1244

Miracles 1244

A Summer Tragedy 1244

LANGSTON HUGHES （1902—1967） 1251

The Negro Speaks of Rivers 1254

Mother to Son 1254

Danse Africaine 1255

Jazzonia 1255

When Sue Wears Red 1256

Dream Variations 1256

The Weary Blues 1257

I Too 1258

A House in Taos 1258

Homesick Blues 1259

Po’ Boy Blues 1260

Gypsy Man 1260

Lament over Love 1261

Red Silk Stockings 1262

Bad Man 1262

Song for a Dark Girl 1262

Gal’s Cry for a Dying Lover 1263

Hard Daddy 1263

Sylvester’s Dying Bed 1264

Ballad of the Landlord 1265

Juke Box Love Song 1266

Dream Boogie 1266

Harlem 1267

Motto 1267

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 1267

The Blues I’m Playing 1271

The Big Sea 1282

When the Negro Was in Vogue 1282

Harlem Literati 1289

Downtown 1293

The Best of Simple 1297

Feet Live Their Own Life 1297

A Toast to Harlem 1299

Jealousy 1301

COUNTEE CULLEN （1903—1946） 1303

Yet Do I Marvel 1305

Tableau 1305

Incident 1306

Saturday’s Child 1306

The Shroud of Color 1307

Heritage 1311

To John Keats，Poet at Spring Time 1314

From the Dark Tower 1315

HELENE JOHNSON （1907—1995） 1315

Poem 1316

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem 1317

Remember Not 1317

Invocation 1317

REALISM，NATURALISM，MODERNISM：1940—1960 1319

MELVIN B.TOLSON （1900？—1966） 1328

An Ex-Judge at the Bar 1330

Dark Symphony 1331

A Legend of Versailles 1334

Libretto for the Republic of Liberia 1335

The Birth of John Henry 1357

Satchmo 1358

DOROTHY WEST （1907—1998） 1358

The Living Is Easy 1359

Part One 1359

Chapter 1.［Cleo］ 1359

Chapter 2.［Cleo’s High Jinks］ 1363

Chapter 3.［Cleo Goes North］ 1370

RICHARD WRIGHT （1908—1960） 1376

Blueprint for Negro Writing 1380

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow，an Autobiographical Sketch 1388

Long Black Song 1397

The Man Who Lived Underground 1414

Black Boy 1450

Chapter ⅩⅢ.［Booklist］ 1450

Chapter ⅩⅥ.［Chicago］ 1457

CHESTER B.HIMES （1909—1984） 1467

Salute to the Passing 1468

ANN PETRY （1911—1997） 1476

Like a Winding Sheet 1478

The Street 1484

Chapter Ⅰ.［The Apartment］ 1484

ROBERT HAYDEN （1913—1982） 1497

The Diver 1499

Homage to the Empress of the Blues 1500

Middle Passage 1501

O Daedalus，Fly Away Home 1505

Runagate Runagate 1506

Frederick Douglass 1508

A Ballad of Remembrance 1509

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday 1510

Soledad 1511

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz 1512

A Letter from Phillis Wheatley 1514

RALPH ELLISON （1914—1994） 1515

Invisible Man 1518

Prologue 1518

Chapter 1.［Battle Royal］ 1525

Epilogue 1535

Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke 1541

The World and the Jug 1549

MARGARET WALKER （b.1915） 1571

For My People 1572

Poppa Chicken 1574

For Malcolm Ⅹ 1575

Prophets for a New Day 1575

GWENDOLYN BROOKS （b.1917） 1577

kitchenette building 1579

the mother 1579

a song in the front yard 1580

Sadie and Maud 1580

the vacant lot 1581

the preacher：ruminates behind the sermon 1581

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith 1582

Maxie Allen 1585

The Rites for Cousin Vit 1586

The Children of the Poor 1589

The Lovers of the Poor 1591

We Real Cool 1591

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock 1593

A Lovely Love 1593

Malcolm Ⅹ 1594

Two Dedications 1596

Riot 1597

The Third Sermon on the Warpland 1599

Young Heroes 1601

when you have forgotten Sunday：the love story 1602

Maud Martha 1650

JAMES BALDWIN （1924—1987） 1654

Everybody’s Protest Novel 1659

Many Thousands Gone 1670

Stranger in the Village 1679

Notes of a Native Son 1694

Sonny’s Blues 1717

BOB KAUFMAN （1925—1986） 1718

Walking Parker Home 1718

Grandfather Was Queer，Too 1719

Jail Poems 1723

Unanimity Has Been Achieved，Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness 1724

War Memoir：Jazz，Don’t Listen to It at Your Own Risk 1725

LORRAINE HANSBERRY （1930—1965） 1728

A Raisin in the Sun 1791

THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT：1960—1970 1791

MARI EVANS 1806

Status Symbol 1807

I Am a Black Woman 1808

HOYT FULLER （1923—1981） 1809

Towards a Black Aesthetic 1810

MALCOLM X （El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz） （1925—1965） 1816

The Autobiography of Malcolm Ⅹ 1817

Chapter 11.Saved 1817

JOHN ALFRED WILLIAMS （b.1925） 1833

The Man Who Cried I Am 1834

1.［In an Outdoor Cafe］ 1834

2.［Memories，Margrit，and Morphine］ 1840

3.［Picture of the Writer］ 1849

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.（1929—1968） 1853

Letter from Birmingham Jail1586 1854

ETHERIDGE KNIGHT （1931—1985） 1866

The Idea of Ancestry 1867

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane 1868

For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide 1869

ADDISON GAYLE JR.（1932—1991） 1869

The Black Aesthetic 1870

Introduction 1870

AMIRI BARAKA （b.1934） 1877

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note 1879

In Memory of Radio 1880

A Poem for Black Hearts 1881

I don’t love you 1881

Three Movements and a Coda 1882

SOS 1883

Black Art 1883

The Invention of Comics 1884

Dutchman 1885

The Revolutionary Theatre 1899

SONIA SANCHEZ （b.1934） 1902

homecoming 1903

poem at thirty 1903

for our lady 1904

Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict 1905

A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women 1905

Part Three 1905

Present 1905

ED BULLINS （b.1935） 1907

Goin’a Buffalo：A Tragifantasy 1908

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER （b.1935） 1946

Soul on Ice 1947

The Primeval Mitosis 1947

A.B.SPELLMAN （b.1935） 1955

Did John’s Music Kill Him？ 1955

JAYNE CORTEZ （b.1936） 1956

How Long Has Trane Been Gone 1957

LARRY NEAL （1937—1981） 1959

The Black Arts Movement 1960

MAULANA KARENGA （b.1941） 1972

Black Art：Mute Matter Given Force and Function 1973

HAKI R.MADHUBUTI （b.1942） 1977

Back Again，Home 1978

Introduction ［to Think Black］ 1978

The Long Reality 1979

Malcolm Spoke / who listened？ 1980

a poem to complement other poems 1981

NIKKI GIOVANNI （b.1943） 1982

For Saundra 1983

Beautiful Black Men 1984

Nikki-Rosa 1984

JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON （b.1943） 1985

A Solo Song：For Doc 1986

QUINCY TROUPE （b.1943） 2002

In Texas Grass 2003

Conversation Overheard 2004

Impressions / of Chicago； For Howlin’ Wolf 2006

CAROLYN M.RODGERS （b.1945） 2007

Jesus Was Crucified 2007

It Is Deep 2009

For Sistuhs Wearin’ Straight Hair 2010

LITERATURE SINCE 1970 2011

ALBERT MURRAY （b.1916） 2021

Train Whistle Guitar 2023

［History Lessons］ 2023

MAYA ANGELOU （b.1928） 2037

Still I Rise 2039

My Arkansas 2040

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 2040

Chapter 15.［Mrs.Flowers］ 2040

Chapter 16.［“Mam”］ 2046

PAULE MARSHALL （b.1929） 2050

Reena 2052

To Da-Duh，in Memoriam 2065

The Making of a Writer：From the Poets in the Kitchen 2072

ADRIENNE KENNEDY （b.1931） 2079

A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 2081

TONI MORRISON （b.1931） 2094

Sula 2098

ERNEST J.GAINES （b.1933） 2180

The Sky Is Gray 2182

AUDRE LORDE （1934—1992） 2203

Father Son and Holy Ghost 2204

The Winds of Orisha 2205

Coal 2207

Now That I Am Forever with Child 2207

A Litany for Survival 2208

The Evening News 2209

Poetry Is Not a Luxury 2210

COLLEEN MCELROY （b.1935） 2212

Pike Street Bus 2213

The Griots Who Know Brer Fox 2214

Tapestries 2216

Caledonia 2218

LUCILLE CLIFTON （b.1936） 2219

［the bodies broken on］ 2220

the lost baby poem 2221

prayer 2222

malcolm 2222

［Kali］ 2222

［if mama / could see］ 2223

homage to my hips 2223

［what spells raccoon to me］ 2224

1.at jonestown 2224

［a woman who loves］ 2224

wishes for sons 2225

move 2226

JUNE JORDAN （b.1936） 2227

In Memoriam：Martin Luther King，Jr. 2229

I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies 2230

Poem about My Rights 2231

Poem for Guatemala 2234

The Female and the Silence of a Man 2235

Intifada 2236

A New Politics of Sexuality 2238

CLARENCE MAJOR （b.1936） 2241

Swallow the Lake 2243

Round Midnight 2244

On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly 2246

Chicago Heat 2247

LEON FORREST （1937—1997） 2250

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden 2252

The Epistle of Sweetie Reed 2252

MICHAEL S.HARPER （b.1938） 2275

Dear John，Dear Coltrane 2277

Deathwatch 2278

Here Where Coltrane Is 2279

Br’er Sterling and the Rocker 2280

Grandfather 2280

“Goin’ to the Territory” 2282

In Hayden’s Collage 2283

The Ghost of Soul-Making 2284

ISHMAEL REED （b.1938） 2285

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra 2286

Railroad Bill，a Conjure Man 2288

Dualism：In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man 2292

Chattanooga 2293

Oakland Blues 2296

Neo-HooDoo Manifesto 2297

Mumbo Jumbo 2301

Chapters 1—2 2301

TONI CADE BAMBARA （1939—1995） 2305

Raymond’s Run 2307

AL YOUNG （b.1939） 2313

A Dance for Ma Rainey 2314

Conjugal Visits 2315

The Seduction of Light 2317

2A.［Ben Franklin］ 2317

3.［Secondhand Business］ 2322

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN （b.1941） 2325

Brothers and Keepers 2328

［Robby’s Version］ 2328

Damballah 2335

SAMUEL R.DELANY （b.1942） 2342

Atlantis：Model 1924 ［d］ 2343

SHERLEYANNE WILLIAMS （1944—1999） 2361

The Peacock Poems：1 2363

I Want Aretha to Set This to Music 2363

Tell Martha Not to Moan 2365

ALICE WALKER （b.1944） 2375

Women 2377

Outcast 2378

On Stripping Bark from Myself 2379

“Good Night，Willie Lee，I’ll See You in the Morning” 2380

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens 2380

Everyday Use 2387

Advancing Luna—and Ida B.Wells 2394

The Color Purple 2405

［God Love All Them Feelings］ 2406

AUGUST WILSON （b.1945） 2409

Fences 2411

MICHELLE CLIFF （b.1946） 2462

Within the Veil 2463

Columba 2466

WANDA COLEMAN （b.1946） 2472

Emmett Till 2473

Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City 2476

be quiet.go away 2477

At the Record Hop 2477

American Sonnet （10） 2478

Bedtime Story 2478

Mastectonmy 2479

OCTAVIA BUTLER （b.1947） 2479

Bloodchild 2480

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA （b.1947） 2495

Februarv in Svdnev 2495

Facing It 2496

Sunday Afternoons 2496

Banking Potatoes 2497

Birds on a Powerline 2498

NATHANIEL MACKEY （b.1947） 2499

Falso Brilhante 2500

Song of the Andoumboulou：8 2501

Djbot Baghostus’s Run 26.Ⅸ.81 2502

CHARLES JOHNSON （b.1948） 2507

The Education of Mingo 2509

NTOZAKE SHANGE （b.1948） 2518

From for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf 2519

Nappy Edges 2521

Bocas：A Daughter’s Geography 2523

JAMAICA KINCAID （b.1949） 2524

Annie John 2526

Chapter Two.The Circling Hand 2526

DAVID BRADLEY （b.1950） 2535

The Chaneysville Incident 2536

［Old Jack］ 2536

GLORIA NAYLOR （b.1950） 2542

The Women of Brewster Place 2544

The Two 2544

TERRY MCMILLAN （b.1951） 2571

Quilting on the Rebound 2572

RITA DOVE （b.1952） 2582

David Walker （1785—1830） 2584

Parsley 2585

Receiving the Stigmata 2587

THOMAS AND BEULAH 2587

The Event 2587

Motherhood 2588

Daystar 2589

The Oriental Ballerina 2589

Pastoral 2591

MOTHER LOVE 2591

Persephone Abducted 2591

Statistic：The Witness 2592

Mother Love 2592

Demeter Mourning 2593

History 2593

Demeter’s Prayer to Hades 2594

WALTER MOSLEY （b.1952） 2594

Devil in a Blue Dress 2596

Chapter 1.［DeWitt Albright］ 2596

Chapter 2.［Joppy］ 2598

Chapter 3.［Daphne Monet］ 2601

ESSEX HEMPHILL （1957—1995） 2608

Conditions 2609

ⅩⅪ 2609

ⅩⅫ 2610

ⅩⅩⅣ 2610

TIMELINE：AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT 2612

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES 2625

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2649

INDEX 2657