Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition

by HILL, Sondra J O&#039 Neale, Horace Porter, Patricia Liggins Hill, Author Bernard W Bell, Trudier Harris, William J. Harris, R Baxter Miller, and Sondra J O'Neale

This comprehensive, chronological anthology of African and African American literature asserts that there is a distinctly black literary and cultural aesthetic, one that originated in the oral traditions of Africa and was kept alive during the American slavery experience. This text represents the centuries-long emergence of this aesthetic in poetry, fiction, drama, essays, speeches, sermons, criticism, journals, and the full range of song lyrics from the spiritual to rap.Produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, the audio CD is a one-of-a-kind collection of many of the poems, chants, and songs included in the book.

• ISBN10: 0618451714
• ISBN13: 9780618451715
• Publish Date: 21 November 2003 (first published 1 December 1996)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
• Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Pages: 1024
• Language: English