My Soul Has Grown Deep Classics of Early African-American Literature (9780345455666) John Edgar Wideman

Product Details:

Paperback: 1280 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (October 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345455665
ISBN-13: 978-0345455666



Product Dimensions:

9.1 x 5.9 x 2.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds

In this vital and inspiring volume, John Edgar Wideman has brought together the first truly representative sampling of literature by African-American writers in the early centuries of our history the art of self-portraiture rapidshare. Reaching across periods, styles, and regional borders, Wideman has selected twelve works of genius–some of them celebrated literary icons, others neglected or forgotten masterpieces– and reprinted them in their entirety the art of self-portraiture rapidshare. The result is a book as thrilling in its passion as it is vast in scope the art of self-portraiture rapidshare.Though these selections come from a range of genres (verse, memoir, historical, and personal narrative), they are all, fundamentally, stories of strength and survival the art of self-portraiture rapidshare. Frederick Douglass’s frank narrative of escape from slavery and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s classic verse take their place beside lesser-known works like Nat Love’s stirring account of life as a black cowboy, Ida B. Wells’s haunting descriptions of lynchings, and the crisp, compelling adventures of Olaudah Equiano. Wideman prefaces each selection with an illuminating biographical essay.The fruit of a lifetime’s devotion to the best American writing, My Soul Has Grown Deep will stand as an enduring monument to the depth and beauty of African-American literature.

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