Call and Response
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0618449094 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 2016 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Hill is professor of English at the University of San Francisco
O.T. Thirtyfirst said This book sings to me. This is no mere literary anthology. It's a history, a cultural statement and a new way of looking at the African American tradition. Song lyrics weave themselves through the poems, around the stories, under the essays and beyond the non-fiction articles. Where else could anyone find the rhetoric of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the old down home Virginny blues of Jimmy Reed?This has the speech that Jesse Jackson gave to the Democratic. Difficult to use book Although there is no faulting the content of this book, I do have issues with its presentation. As a literature textbook, it offers little to the user in the way of navigation. The page headers refer not to the authors or works on those pages, but instead to the abritrary titles of the Editors' sections. In this way, it is well-nigh impossible to find anything in the book. Further, the book could have done with explanatory footnote. Destined for greatness I found this to be a truly valuable resource put together by some very smart people. It's packed with insightful essays, rich overviews and enough great black literature to keep me busy for a good long while. I only wish it had been written years ago.
Hill is professor of English at the University of San Francisco.
Here too are hundreds of spirituals and work songs, jazz and blues lyrics, poems, plays, stories, and speeches. Here, in 2,000 pages and 550 selections, is (in the words of Richard Wright) the "long black song" of African American life, sung in a great choir of voices, from the slaves of the 1600s to the rap artists, orators, novelists, and poets of today.Among the works included are Frederick Douglass's Life and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- both presented complete and un-abridged. More than a decade in the making, Call and Response is a ground-breaking anthology of African American literature, unique in its placing equal emphasis on the written and the oral dimensions of the black aesthetic. An audio CD, produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, features many of the texts as spoken or sung by their creators.. It traces the centuries-long emergence of this distinct literary tradition from its earliest roots in African proverbs, folk-tales, and chants to its latest flowering in the works of such writers as Rita Dove, August Wilson, and Terry McMillan