{"product_id":"the-norton-anthology-of-african-american-literature-3rd-ed","title":"The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (3RD ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncludes bibliographical references and index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIncludes a complementary StudySpace website for further study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms--from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections--with an emphasis on contemporary writers--combine to make \n\u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eGates, Henry Louis, Jr\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of \n\u003cem\u003eLife Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eTradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eFigures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eThe Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eLoose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eColored People: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eThe Future of Race with Cornel West\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eThirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Trials of Phillis Wheatley\u003c\/em\u003e. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries \n\u003cem\u003eFinding Your Roots\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eBlack in Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eAfrican American Lives 1 and 2\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eLooking for Lincoln\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eAmerica Beyond the Color Line\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eWonders of the African World\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the editor of \n\u003cem\u003eAfrican American National Biography\u003c\/em\u003e with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Dictionary of African Biography\u003c\/em\u003e with Anthony Appiah; \n\u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia Africana\u003c\/em\u003e with Anthony Appiah; and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Bondwoman's Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eSmith, Valerie\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eValerie Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. University of Virginia), General Editor. Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, professor of English and African American Studies, and founding director of the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University. Author of \n\u003cem\u003eSelf-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eNot Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eToni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. Editor of several works, including \n\u003cem\u003eRepresenting Blackness: Issues in Film and Video\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eAfrican-American Writers\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eNew Essays on Song of Solomon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eAndrews, William L\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam L. Andrews\u003c\/strong\u003e is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of \n\u003cem\u003eWisconsin Studies in Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-editor of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Companion to African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \n\u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of \n\u003cem\u003eUp From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eTo Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography, 1760-1865\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eSisters of the Spirit; The Curse of Caste\u003c\/em\u003e by Julia C. 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He is editor of \n\u003cem\u003eImamu Amiri Baraka: A Collection of Critical Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, \n\u003cem\u003eSpeaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison\u003c\/em\u003e, \n\u003cem\u003eLarry Neal: Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, the \"Performance\" Special Issue of PMLA, and the \"Black Arts Movement\" section of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of African American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eEdwards, Brent Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrent Hayes Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ph.D. Columbia University), is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism\u003c\/em\u003e, which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies; and the forthcoming \n\u003cem\u003eEpistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. He is editor of \n\u003cem\u003ePMLA\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eFoster, Frances Smith\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrances Smith Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. She is the Editor of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Literature of Slavery and Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \n\u003cem\u003e\"Til Death or Distance Do Us Part\" Love and Marriage in African America; Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eWitnessing Slavery: The Development of the Antebellum Slave Narrative\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of \n\u003cem\u003eSlavery of the Literary Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e; author of \n\u003cem\u003e\"The Changing Same\" Studies in Fiction by Black Women\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eLeaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin\u003c\/em\u003e; editor of Nella Larsen's \n\u003cem\u003eQuicksand and Passing\u003c\/em\u003e, Jessie Redmon Fauset's \n\u003cem\u003ePlum Bun\u003c\/em\u003e, Pauline Hopkins's \n\u003cem\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous articles and essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eO'Meally, Robert G\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRobert G. O'Meally (Ph.D. Harvard), Editor, \n\u003cem\u003eThe Vernacular Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e. Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature and founder of the Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University. Author of \n\u003cem\u003eThe Jazz Singers\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eThe Craft of Ralph Ellison\u003c\/em\u003e; \n\u003cem\u003eLady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e; and \n\u003cem\u003eRomare Bearden; A Black Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. 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