Black southern voices : an anthology of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and critical essays /
Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Meridian,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Oliver Killens
- Foreword / Jerry W. Ward Jr.
- Fiction. From Black thunder / Arna Bontemps
- From Their eyes were watching god / Zora Neale Hurston
- The man who saw the flood / Richard Wright
- Withered skin of berries / Jean Toomer
- From Jubilee / Margaret Walker
- From Sippi / John Oliver Killens
- The lying bee / John Henrik Clarke
- Health card / Frank Yerby
- From Witherspoon / Lance Jeffers
- Return of the spouse / Arthenia B. Millican
- From A short walk / Alice Childress
- Mama Louise grabs her satchel and splits inside Doc John's cabin/his cave / Steve Cannon
- From Ludell and Willie / Brenda Wilkinson
- From South town / Lorenz Graham
- From De mojo blues / Arthur Flowers
- Going home / Carol Dixon
- How many miles to Bethlehem? / Joyce L. Dukes
- Heirs and orphans / Doris Jean Austin
- Miss Julie / Bill Williams Forde
- From This child's gonna live / Sarah Wright
- Poetry. Spirituals and blues : selections from The negro caravan
- Spirituals
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
- Steal away
- Deep river
- I been rebuked and I been scorned
- Go down, Moses
- Slavery chain
- No more auction block
- St. Louis blues
- The southern blues
- Backwater blues
- Sister Lou ; Strong men / Sterling A. Brown
- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson
- The ancient rain / Bob Kaufman
- A poem for myself ; Belly song ; Three songs / Etheridge Knight
- Mr. Tut's house / Julia Fields
- Clinton / Sterling D. Plumpp
- Alabama poem / Nikki Giovanni
- The governor of Ollie Street ; By the 5th generation / Ahmos Zu-Bolton
- Tuskegee, Tuskegee ; To him who in his absence from himself ; The flesh of the young men is burning / Lance Jeffers
- Hard times a' coming ; Near miss / Nayo (Barbara Watkins)
- In my minds eye ; Till / Julius E. Thompson
- Son child / John Milton Wesley
- Jazz to Jackson to John ; Don't be fourteen (in Mississippi) / Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
- For Lil Louis ; Return to English turn ; Dream Orpheum balcony / Thomas C. Dent
- Moving ; Evening ; Childhood scenes in four seasons / Helen Quigless
- Baptism ; For Mark James Robert Essex, d. 1973 ; Feeling through ; When the wine was gone / Alvin Albert
- Drama. Ritual murder / Thomas C. Dent
- Somewhere in the world / Kalamu ya Salaam (Val Ferdinand)
- Nonfiction. Outta my name / Malaika Adero
- From Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass
- From The narrative of Hosea Hudson / Nell Irvin Painter
- From The choice : the issue of black survival in America / Samuel F. Yette
- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King Jr.
- From Angela Davis : an autobiography / Angela Davis
- Return to the source / Joyce Ladner
- From This is my country too / John A. Williams
- From bridge across Jordan / Amelia Platts Boynton
- From Gather together in my name / Maya Angelou
- Notes on the movement : then, now, and tomorrow / Jack Hunter O'Dell
- Art and the movement / John O'Neal
- Wanted : some black long distance runners / John Oliver Killens
- Annie Devine remembers / Thomas C. Dent
- From South to a very old place / Albert Murray
- Going home / William Mackey, Jr.
- Critical essays. Cliché, monotony, and touchstone : folk song composition and the new black poetry / Stephen E. Henderson
- On the death of Richard Wright / Hoyt W. Fuller
- Reclaiming the southern experience : the black aesthetic 10 years later / Addison Gayle, Jr.
- From mammies to militants ; The maid as southern and northern mammy / Trudier Harris
- The etched flame of Margaret Walker: biblical and literary re-creation in southern history / R. Baxter Miller.