Research Guides: African Diaspora & African Literatures: Anthologies

Anthologies

Africa and trans-Atlantic memories: literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history. Edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2008.
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African American literary criticism, 1773 to 2000. Edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin. New York: Twayne, c1999.
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song. Edited by Kevin Young. New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]
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The African American West: a century of short stories. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud & Laurie Champion. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, c2000.
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African fundamentalism: a literary and cultural anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Compiled and edited by Tony Martin. Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 1991.
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African literature: an anthology of criticism and theory. Edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
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African women playwrights. Edited and with an introduction by Kathy A. Perkins. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
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African women writing resistance: an anthology of contemporary voices. Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez ...[et al.] Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
See also at Columbia: E-book
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L'Afrique au miroir des littératures, des sciences de l'homme et de la société: mélanges offerts à
V. Y. Mudimbe. Edités par Mukala Kadima-Nzuji et Sélom Komlan Gbanou. Paris : L'Harmattan; Bruxelles: Archives et musée de la littérature, c2003.
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Annual selected papers of the ALA (African Literature Association), 1975 to present.
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Anthologie africaine d'expression française. 2 vols. Compilée par Jacques Chevrier. Paris: Hatier, c1981-1988.
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Anthologie de la littérature négro-africaine ; romanciers et conteurs. 2 vols. [Compiled by] Léonard Sainville. [Paris : Présence africaine],1963-68.
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Anthologie négro-africaine : panorama critique des prosateurs, poètes et dramaturges noirs du XXe siècle. Redigée par Lilyan Kesteloot. Nouv. éd. rev. et augm. Vanves : EDICEF, c1992.
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Before Harlem : an anthology of African American literature from the long nineteenth century. Edited by Ajuan Maria Mance. Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
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Beloved Harlem: a literary tribute to Black America's most famous neighborhood: from the classics to contemporary. Edited by William H. Banks, Jr. New York: Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2005.
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The best short stories by Black writers: the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967. Edited with an introduction by Langston Hughes. Boston: Little, Brown, c1967.
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Black American short stories: one hundred years of the best. Edited by John Henrik Clarke. Rev. and expanded ed. New York : Hill and Wang, c1993.
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Black female playwrights : an anthology of plays before 1950. Edited by Kathy A. Perkins. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1989.
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Black fire; an anthology of Afro-American writing. Edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal.
New York: Morrow, 1968.
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Black South African women: an anthology of plays. Edited by Kathy A. Perkins. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press; London: Routledge, 1999.
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Black theatre: ritual performance in the African diaspora. Edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, Gus Edwards.Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
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Black theatre USA: plays by African Americans, 1847 to today. Edited by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine. Rev. and expanded ed. New York : Free Press, c1996.
--See also: Milstein and Offsite copies
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Black thunder : an anthology of contemporary African American drama. Edited and with an introduction by William B. Branch. New York : Mentor, 1992.
Contains a selection of one play from each of the following playwrights: George C. Wolfe, Leslie Lee; Steve Carter; Amiri Baraka; P.J. Gibson; William Branch; Alexander Simmons; Ed Bullins; and August Wilson
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The Black woman : an anthology. Edited by Toni Cade Bambara. 1st Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 2005.
--See also: 1970 edition
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Black writers in Britain, 1760-1890. Selected and introduced by Paul Edwards and David Dabydeen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1991.
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Black writers matter. Edited by Whitney French. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina Press, [2019].
A short anthology of 21st century African-Canadian writing.
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Classic plays from the Negro Ensemble Company. Edited by Paul Carter Harrison & Gus Edwards. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995.
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Confirmation, an anthology of African American women. Compiled by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) & Amina Baraka. New York: Morrow, 1983.
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Contemporary African literature. Compiled by Edris Makward & Leslie Lacy. New York: Random House, [1972] .
***Project editor: Toni Morrison.
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Crosswinds: an anthology of Black dramatists in the diaspora. Edited and with an introduction by William B. Branch. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
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Daughters of Africa : an international anthology of words and writings by women of African descent from the ancient Egyptian to the present. Edited by Margaret Busby. London : Jonathan Cape, 1992.
See also: New daughters of Africa (2019) below
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Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work. Edited by Horace A. Porter. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
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Ebony rising: short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era. Edited by Craig Gable.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c2004.
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Essays in honor of Bernth Lindfors. Edited by Toyin Falola & Barbara Harlow.
[V. 1. Palavers of African literature ; v. 2. African writers and their readers.]
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2002.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader. Edited by Abby Wolf. New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2012.
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Genius in bondage : literature of the early Black Atlantic. Edited by Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.
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Giant talk ; an anthology of Third World writings. Compiled & edited by Quincy Troupe & Rainer Schulte. New York: Random House, [1975].
***Project editor: Toni Morrison.
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Girl, colored and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in
The Crisis magazine, 1910-2010. Edited by Judith Musser. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2011.
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Hurricane: cris d'insulaires; anthologie poétique. Aimé Césaire, Paul Dakeyo et al.; Doriane Suicard, coordinatrice. Fort-de-France, Martinique: Editions Desnel, c2005.
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Langston Hughes. Edited by R. Baxter Miller. Critical insights. Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, c2013.
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Littératures francophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest : anthologie. Sous la direction de Jean-Louis Joubert ; avec la participation de Léopoldo Victor T. Amado [and others]. Paris : Agence de coopération culturelle et technique : Nathan, 1994.
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Littérature haïtienne: de 1960 à nos jours. Notre librairie; no. 133. Paris: CLEF, 1998.
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New Black & African writing : a critical anthology. 2 vols. Edited by C. Smith and G.M.T. Emezue. Nigeria : Handel : IRCALC ; Oxford, UK : Marketing and distribution, African Books Collective, 2009-[2015?]
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New daughters of Africa : an international anthology of writing by women of African descent. Edited by Margaret Busby. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
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The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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New plays from the Black theatre; an anthology. Compiled by Ed Bullins. New York, Bantam Books, 1969.
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Nine Black women: an anthology of nineteenth-century writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. Edited and introduced by Moira Ferguson. New York: Routledge, 1998.
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Nineteenth-century Black women's literary emergence: evolutionary spirituality, sexuality, and identity: an anthology. Edited by Sally Ann H. Ferguson. New York: Peter Lang, c2008.
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The North Carolina roots of African American literature : an anthology. Edited by William L. Andrews. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
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The Norton anthology of African American literature. 3rd edition. 2 vols. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, and Valerie Smith. New York; London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014.
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Opening spaces : an anthology of contemporary African women's writings. Edited by Yvonne Vera. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999.
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The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Edited by Arnold Rampersad ; associate editor, Hilary Herbold. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Peuples noirs, peuples africains. (Online): Archive, 1978-1984. Paris, France; Perth, Australia: University of Western Australia, 2005.
Poètes d'Afrique et des Antilles d'expression française: de la naissance à nos jours: anthologie. Edited by Hamidou Dia. Paris: Table ronde, c2002.
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The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970; an anthology. Edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1949.
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The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
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Reflections: an anthology of new work by African women poets. Edited by Anthonia C. Kalu, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.
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Richard Wright : a collection of critical essays. Edited by Arnold Rampersad ; assistant editors, Bruce Simon, Jeffrey Tucker. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1995.
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Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women Edited by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
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A stranger in the village: two centuries of African-American travel writing. Edited by Farah J. Griffin and Cheryl J. Fish. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
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Talking with African writers : interviews with African poets, playwrights & novelists. Edited by Jane Wilkinson. London : J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H., USA : Heinemann, 1992.
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"Tell it to us easy" and other stories: a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in Opportunity magazine, (1923-1948). Edited by Judith Musser. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2008.
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Unchained voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth century. Edited by Vincent Carretta. Expanded ed. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, c2004.
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The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature. Volume 1, 1746-1920. E-book. Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
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The Wiley Blackwell anthology of African American literature. Volume 2, 1920 to present. E-book. Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
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Within the circle: an anthology of African American literary criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Edited by Angelyn Mitchell. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1994.
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Woza Afrika!: an anthology of South African plays. Selected and edited by Duma Ndlovu; foreword by Wole Soyinka; preface by Amiri Baraka. New York: G. Braziller, 1986.
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Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998: an interdisciplinary anthology. Edited by James Procter.
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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