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Baton Rogue. 1989. Louisiana State University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0807115118. This publication has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and languages. 461 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature History African American. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Many literary histories of the United States have tended to ignore or at best provide only cursory treatment of black writers. In this major work, Blyden Jackson, a lifelong student and teacher of literature, a friend and colleague of such seminal figures as Langston Hughes, and an eminent survivor of his generation of critics of black literature, provides the first full-scale, in-depth study of the Afro-American literary tradition. THE LONG BEGINNING, VOLUME I of this projected four-volume series, covers the first 150 years of Afro-American literature. It begins with the first known piece of Afro-American writing, ‘Bars Fight, ' a poem about a 1746 skirmish between Indians and whites in Massachusetts, written by a sixteen-year-old West African slave named Lucy Terry. Jackson's narrative proceeds through the work of the little known and the famous, from Briton Hammon and John Marrant to Frederick Douglass. Jackson considers slave narratives, poetry, sermons, histories, folk literature (including spirituals), and novels. He divides the first 150 years of black writing into two ages. The Age of Apprenticeship, lasting from 1746 to 1830, was a time when uprooted Africans concentrated on learning to express themselves in a new language. During the Age of the Abolitionists, from 1830 through 1895, blacks found their own voice-a voice of protest against their exclusion from American life. Jackson takes a biographical approach through much of this volume. He asks the reader to judge many of his subjects more for what they accomplished than for the polish and sophistication of their writing. Jackson demonstrates that Afro-American literature is a coherent body of work and that black writers have their own unique picture of the land that claimed their muscle and their blood. He puts 150 years of literature into sharp historical focus. THE LONG BEGINNING, which includes a remarkably thorough bibliographical essay, gives both the academic audience and the inquisitive general reader a comprehensive understanding of the early years of the Afro-American literary tradition. inventory #16840.
