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The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter

19—LITERATURE—History and Criticism

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19—LITERATURE—History and Criticism

948

Abramson, Doris E. Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959. New York, Columbia University Press, 1969. 335 p. PS351.A2

Bibliography: p. [307]-317.

949

Bone, Robert A. The Negro novel in America. [Rev. ed.] New Haven, Yale University Press [1965] 289 p. PS153.N5B6 1965

Bibliography: p. 255-270.

950

Brawley, Benjamin G., ed. Early Negro American writers; selections with biographical and critical introductions. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1935. 305 p. PS508.N3B7

951

Brawley, Benjamin G. The Negro genius; a new appraisal of the achievement of the American Negro in literature and the fine arts. New York, Biblo and Tannen, 1966 [c1937] 366 p. E185.82.B816 1966

Bibliography: p. 331-350.

952

Brawley, Benjamin G. The Negro in literature and art in the United States. 3d ed. New York, Duffield, 1929. 231 p. plates, ports. E185.82.B824

Bibliography: p. 213-228.

Contents.—The Negro genius.—Phillis Wheatley.—A hundred years of striving.—Orators. Douglass and Washington.—Paul Laurence Dunbar.—Charles W. Chesnutt.—W. E. Burghardt DuBois.—William Stanley Braithwaite.—James Weldon Johnson.—Other writers.—The new realists.—The stage.—Painters. Henry O. Tanner.—Sculptors. Meta Warrick Fuller.—Music.—Appendix: The Negro in American fiction. The Negro in American literature.—The Negro in contemporary literature.

953

Bronz, Stephen H. Roots of Negro racial consciousness; the 1920's: three Harlem Renaissance authors. New York, Libra [1964] 101 p. PS508.N3B73

Bibliography: p. 95-101.

Contents.—Introduction.—James Weldon Johnson.—Countee Cullen.—Claude McKay.—Conclusion.—Notes.

954

Brown, Sterling A. The Negro in American fiction. Washington, Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1937. 209 p. (Bronze booklet no. 6) [E185.5.B85] no. 6 PS374.N4B7

"Selected reading list": p. 207-209.

955

Butcher, Margaret J. The Negro in American culture; based on materials left by Alain Locke. New York, Knopf, 1956. 294 p. E185.82.B89

956

Dreer, Herman. American literature by Negro authors. New York, Macmillan, 1950. xvii, 334 p. ports. PS508.N3D7

Bibliography: p. 327-332.

957

Ellison, Ralph. Shadow and act. New York, Random House [1964] xxii, 317 p. PS153.N5E4 1964

958

Ferguson, Blanche E. Countee Cullen and the Negro renaissance. New York, Dodd, Mead [1966] 213 p. illus., ports. PS3505.U287Z6

Bibliography: p. 205-206.

959

Ford, Nick A. The contemporary Negro novel; a study in race relations. College Park, Md., McGrath Pub. Co., 1968 [c1936] 108 p. PS374.N4F6 1968

Bibliography: p. 107-108.

960

Gloster, Hugh M. Negro voices in American fiction. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1948. xiv, 295 p. PS374.N4G5

Bibliography: p. 273-288.

961

Green, Elizabeth A. L. The Negro in contemporary American literature; an outline for individual and group study. College Park, Md., McGrath Pub. Co. [1968, c1928] 92 p. PS153.N5G7 1968

Includes bibliographical references.

962

Gross, Seymour L., and John E. Hardy, eds. Images of the Negro in American literature. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966] 321 p. (Patterns of literary criticism) PS173.N4G7

Bibliography: p. 289-315.

963

Hughes, John M. C. The Negro novelist; a discussion of the writings of American Negro novelists, 1940-1950, by Carl Milton Hughes [pseud.]. New York, Citadel Press [1953] 288 p. PS374.N4H8

Bibliography: p. [279]-285.

964

Littlejohn, David. Black on white; a critical survey of writing by American Negroes. New York, Grossman, 1966. 180 p. PS153.N5L5

965

Loggins, Vernon. The Negro author, his development in America to 1900. Port Washington, N. Y., Kennikat Press [1964, c1959] 480 p. (Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature) PS153.N5L65 1964

Issued also as thesis, Columbia University, 1931.

"Bibliographies": p. [408]-457.

966

Margolies, Edward. Native sons; a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors. Philadelphia, Lippincott [1968] 210 p. PS153.N5M26

Contents.—Perspectives.—The first forty years: 1900-1940; [W. E. B. DuBois and others]—Migration: William Attaway and Blood on the Forge.—Richard Wright: Native Son and three kinds of revolution.—Race and sex; the novels of Chester Himes.—The Negro church; James Baldwin and the Christian vision.—History as blues: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.—The new nationalism: Malcolm X.—The expatriate as novelist: William Demby.—Prospects: LeRoi Jones?—Bibliography (p. 201).

967

McCall, Dan. The example of Richard Wright. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [c1969] 202 p. PS3545.R815Z7

968

Mays, Benjamin E. The Negro's God as reflected in his literature. Lithographs by James L. Wells. Boston, Chapman & Grimes [c1938] 269 p. PS153.N5M3

Bibliography: p. 257-263.

969

Nelson, John H. The Negro character in American literature. Lawrence, Kan., Dept. of Journalism Press, 1926. 146 p. (Bulletin of the University of Kansas, v. 27, no. 15. Humanistic studies. v. 4, no. 1) PS173.N4N4 1926a

Issued also in bound form as Humanistic Studies, v. 4, no. 1, without the cover having series note, Bulletin of the University of Kansas, v. 27, no. 15.

970

Nilon, Charles H. Faulkner and the Negro. Boulder, University of Colorado Press, 1962. 111 p. (University of Colorado studies. Series in language and literature, no. 8) P25.C64 no. 8

Bibliographical footnotes.

971

Redding, Jay Saunders. To make a poet black. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1939. 142 p. PS153.N5R4 [TR: Redding, J. Saunders]

"Factual material and critical opinion on American Negro literature."—Preface.

Bibliography: p. [131]-136.

972

Turner, Darwin T., and Jean M. Bright, eds. Images of the Negro in America. Boston, D. C. Heath [1965] 113 p. (Selected source materials for college research papers) PS508.N3T8

Bibliographical references included in "Suggestions for library work" (p. 112-113).

973

Turner, Lorenzo D. Anti-slavery sentiment in American literature prior to 1865. Port Washington, N. Y., Kennikat Press [1966] 188 p. PS169.S47T8 1966

Reprint of a thesis, University of Chicago, 1926.

Bibliography: p. 153-182.

974

Wagner, Jean. Les poètes nègres des États-Unis; le sentiment racial et religieux dans la poésie de P. L. Dunbar à L. Hughes (1890-1940). Paris, Librairie Istra, 1963 [c1962] 637 p. PS153.N5W3

Bibliography: p. [601]-620.

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