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DARK SYMPHONY
Negro Literature in America

Edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross,
both, The City College of the City University on New York

"If one of our primary aims as readers of native works of art is to discover the complex fate of being American, to banish stereotypes of thought and character and discover the truth about our own people, then it is time we viewed the Negro through his own clear eyes, listened to the Negro in his own best voice, and felt the complexity of the Negro's humanity in the most intimate and permanent form that has been available to him-literary expression."
                                     -from the Introduction
Covering the entire history of Negro writing in the United States, this anthology of ninety-one selections illuminates a major aspect of the American spirit. Speaking for and of themselves, the writers-from Fredrick Douglass to LeROi Jones-are presented through their most enduring works. With extensive introductions to the major periods of Negro literature and particular introductions to each author, Dark Symphony looks more deeply into Negro writing than has any previous anthology.

Dark Symphony includes selections from the works of:
Frederick Douglass. Charles W. Chesnutt. Paul Laurence Dunbar. W. E. B. Du Bois. James Weldon Johnson. Alain Locke. Claude Mckay. Jean Toomer. Rudolph Fisher. Eric Walrond. Sterling A. Brown. Countee Cullen. Langston Hughes. Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Albert Murray. John A. Williams. Paule Marshall. Ernest J. Gaines. William Melvin Kelly. Melvin B. Tolson. Arna Bontemps Robert E. Hayden. Dudley Randall. Margaret A. Walker. Gwendolyn Brooks. James A. Emanuel. Mari Evans. LeRoi Jones. Arthur P. Davis. Philip Butcher. Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Julian Mayfield

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