Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

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Label

Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

Title remainder

literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

Statement of responsibility

edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni

Contributor

• Giovanni, Nikki
• Oliver, Stephanie Stokes

Editor

• Oliver, Stephanie Stokes

Subject

• African Americans -- Books and reading | History
• African Americans -- Intellectual life
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans in literature
• American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
• American literature -- History and criticism
• Essays
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Authorship
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / African American
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American

Genre

• Essays

Language

eng

Summary

Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This unique collection seeks to shed light on that injustice and subjugation, as well as the hard-won literary progress made, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in one magnificent volume that presents reading as an act of resistance. Organized into three sections, the Peril, the Power, and Pleasure, and with an array of contributors both classic and contemporary, Black Ink presents the brilliant diversity of black thought in America while solidifying the importance of these writers within the greater context of the American literary tradition. At times haunting and other times profoundly humorous, this unprecedented anthology guides you through the remarkable experiences of some of America's greatest writers and their lifelong pursuits of literacy and literature. The foreword was written by Nikki Giovanni. Contributors include: Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, Walter Dean Myers, Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], Alice Walker, Jamaica Kincaid, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Terry McMillan, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Colson Whitehead. The anthology features a bonus in-depth interview with President Barack Obama

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

808.849896

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS153.N5

LC item number

B5547 2018

Literary form

essays

Nature of contents

bibliography

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