Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory BoardDaphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

• Editorial Advisory Board xv Preface xvi Introduction xxi Principles of Selection and Editorial Procedures xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Part 1 The Literatures of the New Negro Renaissance: c.1920–1940 1 Introduction 3 Claude McKay (1889–1948) 7 Jessie Fauset (1882–1961) 58 Jean Toomer (1894–1967) 77 Countée Cullen (1903–1946) 125 W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) 137 Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934) 164 Helene Johnson (1906–1995) 190 Alain Locke (1885–1954) 197 Langston Hughes (1902–1967) 207 George S. Schuyler (1895–1977) 219 Dorothy West (1907–1998) 244 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) 251 Nella Larsen (1891–1964) 261 Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989) 318 Richard Wright (1908–1960) 332 Part 2 The Literatures of Modernism, Modernity, and Civil Rights: c.1940–1965 385 Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) 391 Robert Hayden (1913–1980) 418 Chester Himes (1909–1984) 426 Ann Petry (1908–1997) 441 James Baldwin (1924–1987) 472 Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) 512 Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) 599 Part 3 The Literatures of Nationalism, Militancy, and the Black Aesthetic: c.1965–1975 607 Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) 613 Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) 637 Larry Neal (1937–1981) 649 Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) 661 Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) 665 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) 672 Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) 680 June Jordan (1936–2002) 686 Part 4 The Literatures of the Contemporary Period: c.1975 to the Present 709 Samuel Delany (b. 1942) 715 Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 725 Alice Walker (b. 1944) 733 Audre Lorde (1934–1992) 761 Octavia Butler (1947–2006) 778 Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) 808 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) 820 Rita Dove (b. 1952) 835 August Wilson (1945–2005) 869 Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) 915 Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) 922 Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) 947 Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) 951 Walter Mosley (b. 1952) 957 Percival Everett (b. 1956) 978 John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) 988 Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 999 Edward P. Jones (b. 1950) 1005 Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) 1021 Glossary 1032 Timeline 1040 Name Index 1053 Subject Index 1058

"The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium." ( Native American Encyclopedia , 21 January 2014)