African-American literature

596 Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

Alexander, Will 10–11
“Alexander Calder” (Miller) 358
“Alice” (White) 546
Alice in Wonder (Davis) 133
Allen, Jeffery Renard 11–12
All God’s Children Need Traveling
Shoes (Angelou) 14
All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale
(Berry) 44
“All That Could Go Wrong”
(Miller) 358
All the Rest Have Died (Gunn) 218
Almost Midnight (Belton) 42
Along This Way: The Autobiography
of James Weldon Johnson (John-
son) 284
“Alternative, The” (Baraka) 212
Always Outnumbered, Always Out-
gunned (Mosley) 370
“America” (McKay) 232, 348
American Anti-Slavery Society 196
American Colonization Society
(ACS) 53–54, 196
American dream
Corrothers (James D.) on 123
Elder (Lonne) on 166
Hansberry (Lorraine) on 426
Marshall (Paule) on 337
McCall (Nathan) on 342
Petry (Ann) on 483
Wilson (August) on 182, 556
Wolfe (George) on 559
Wright (Charles Stevenson)
on 563
American Dreams (Sapphire)
449–450
American Hunger (Wright) 50, 51,
566–567
American Journal (Hayden) 240
American Negro Theatre (ANT)
102
“American Theatre: For Whites
Only?” (Ward) 531
American Visions (Hurston) 261
America Play, The (Parks) 407
Amini, Johari 438, 492
“Anatomy of Resonance, The”
(Wright) 565
And All Our Wounds Forgiven (Les-
ter) 313
Anderson, Sherwood 502
Andrews, William 512, 513

“And Shine Swam On” (Neal) 46,

388

“And Still I Rise” (Angelou) 13

And Then We Heard the Thunder

(Killens) 300–301

Angel Levine (Gunn) 219

Angelou, Maya 12–15, 236, 444

I Know Why the Caged Bird

Sings 13, 14, 265–266, 364

Anger and Innocence (Smith) 469

animism 10

Annie Allen (Brooks) 74

Annie John (Kincaid) 15–16, 302

Another Country (Baldwin) 16–17,

27–28

Another Good Loving Blues (Flow-

ers) 186, 187

Another Show (Peterson) 411

Ansa, Tina McElroy 17–18

“Answer, The” (Simmons) 465

ANT. See American Negro Theatre

Anthology of Magazine Verse and

Yearbook of American Poetry

(Braithwaite) 71

Anthony, Florence. See Ai

Antigua 15

Anzaldúa, Gloria 493

Aptheker, Herbert 37, 527

“L’Argent” (Thomas) 495

“Ark of Bones” (Dumas) 153, 154

“Art and illusion” (Shepherd) 462

“Art of a Poet, The” (Horton) 256

Association for the Study of Negro

Life and History (ASNLH) 372

“Asylum” (Jones) 287

“Atlanta Exposition Address”

(Washington) 90, 516, 517–518,

533

Attaway, William 18–20

At the Bottom of the River (Kincaid)

15, 302

“At the Record Hop” (Coleman)

110–111

“At 36” (Harpe) 76

Aubert, Alvin 20–21

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Rail-

road in the Sky (Ringgold) 437

“Aunt Ida Pieces of Quilt” (Dixon)

142

Author’s Evening at Home, The

(Dunbar-Nelson) 158

autobiographies. See memoirs

Autobiography of An Ex-Colored

Man, The (Johnson) 21–22, 64,

282, 283, 521

Autobiography of Malcolm X, The

(Malcolm X) 22–24, 311, 331

Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitt-

man, The (Gaines) 24–25, 105,

194, 195, 327

Autobiography of My Mother, The

(Kincaid) 15, 303

Autobiography of W. E. B. DuBois,

The (DuBois) 151

Autumn Love Cycle (Johnson) 280

B

Babel-17 (Delany) 134

Baby Momma Drama (Weber)

537–538

Baby of the Family (Ansa) 17–18

“Backwater Blues” (Brown)

476–477

Bailey’s Cafe (Naylor) 387, 560

Baker, Henry E. 32

Baker, Houston A., Jr. 26–27, 80,

87, 117, 435, 518, 533

Baldwin, James 27–29

Another Country 16–17, 27–28

“Everybody’s Protest Novel” vii,

28, 175–176, 446–447

Go Tell It on the Mountain 27,

93, 119, 211–212

on Himes (Chester) 265

on Native Son (Wright) vii, 175

on Parks (Suzan-Lori) 407

“Sonny’s Blues” 338, 471–472

on Till (Emmett) 499

and Wright (Richard) 566

Ball, M. Charlene 576

“Ballad of Birmingham” (Randall)

72, 428

“Ballad of Remembrance, A”

(Hayden) 29–30, 239, 245

“Ballad of the Brown Girl” (Cul-

len) 127

Bambara, Toni Cade 30–31, 131,

493

Bamboozled (film) 447

Banana Bottom (McKay) 348, 349

Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics,

The (Cotter) 123

Banjo (McKay) 348, 349