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Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights. The Ninth Edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergized the volume across the centuries.

Fresh scholarship, new authors—with an emphasis on contemporary writers—new topical clusters, and a new ebook make the Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched value for students. McKay have compiled what may be the definitive collection of its kind. Organized chronologically, the massive work gathers writings from six periods of black history: slavery and freedom; Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism and Modernism; the Black Arts Movement and the period since the s.

The work begins with the vernacular tradition of spirituals, gospel and the blues; continues through work songs, jazz and rap; ranges through sermons and folktales; and embraces letters and journals, poetry, short fiction, novels, autobiography and drama. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

A used copy or older edition might not include them. This is the big one. The latest edition is the 10th. Package 1 includes volumes A, B, and C. Package 2 includes volumes D, E, and F. This is another very popular one. The latest edition is the 9th. Nina Baym Editor. Published March 12th by W. Published November 23rd by W. Robert S. Levine ,. Wayne Franklin ,. Published November 12th by W.

Levine Editor ,. Wayne Franklin Editor. Published November 22nd by W. Published December 1st by W. Wayne Franklin Editor ,. Gura Editor. Norton Anthology of American Literature Paperback. Published February 28th by W. Ronald S.

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