Writing from the Black Soul: Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century African American Short Stories · Anthologies of African American Writing

Title

Writing from the Black Soul: Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century African American Short Stories

This edition

Writing from the Black Soul: Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century African American Short Stories. Ed. Carme Manuel. JPM Ediciones, 2014. 129 pp.

Table of contents

The two offers (Anglo-African magazine, 1859) / Frances Watkins Harper -- The goophered grapevine (The Atlantic monthly, 1887) / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Aunt Lindy : a story founded on real life (A.M.E. Church review, 1889) / Victoria Earle Matthews -- The stones of the village (ca. 1900) / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Talma Gordon (Colored American magazine, 1900) / Pauline E. Hopkins -- The octoroon's revenge (Colored American magazine, 1902) / Ruth D. Todd -- The preacher at Hill Station (A.M.E. Church review, 1903) / Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman -- The lynching of Jube Benson (The Heart of happy hollow, 1904) / Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Publisher's description

"African American short fiction can only be appreciated if read by first taking into account their multifarious responses to their contemporary political, economic, social and cultural circumstances. The stories presented in Writing from the Black Soul illustrate how in provocative ways African American writers from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards explored a number of themes that were relevant not only to the development of new and original literary traditions but also to the advancement of racial relationships in the post-slavery, segregated United States of their time."

See also

"Carme Manuel is Professor of English in the Department de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, where she started lecturing on American literature in 1992. She has taught courses on the American Modernist novel, African American slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance literature, nineteenth- and twentieth- century drama and poetry, pre-Faulknerian Southern fiction, American ethnic literatures, among others. Her interests lie in African American studies and genre studies and she has published and lectured widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American women writing. Among other publications, she has edited and is the author of the first Spanish translations of Our Nig (Harriet E. Wilson), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet A. Jacobs), Behind the Scenes (Elizabeth Keckley), and is the author of the first anthology published in Catalan of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African American women poets. She has also written on Charles Brockden Brown, Mark Twain, George Washington Cable, Walt Whitman, Eugene O'Neill, among others. She is a reviewer for a number of both Spanish and American academic journals. She has also co-authored with Josep-Vicent Garcia i Raffi the first anthology and translation of Welsh poetry into Catalan, the biography of Welsh activist and translator Esyllt T. Lawrence, and a number of essays on Welsh language and teaching and its relation to Catalan language and teaching in the Comunitat Valenciana. Her research interests and publications focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, with a special emphasis on African American women's writing. In 2002 she founded the independent scholarly collection Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans (PUV) devoted to publishing work on American studies. BJC has published more than one hundred volumes to date by Spanish, American and European scholars. She has been vice-president of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS) since March 2012. She is currently completing a book on late nineteenth-century black women's life writing. In 2013 she published her first novel, Llanceu la creu" (publisher's description).

Item Number

A0621