African American Literature Origin Slave South America Black Literature

African American Literature Emphasis on Slave Narrative Autobiographical note Diaspora heritage- Africa Post colonial literature

African American Literature Early Literature: Lucy Terry- wrote ballad- Bars Fight in 1746 Josiah Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts in 1855 Phillis Wheatley- (1753-84) Jupiter Hammon- (1711-1806)-the first published Black writer in America-"An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries“ poem

African American Literature The first African-American novel -Harriet Wilson's Our Nig (1859)- her novel is about the difficulties for the freedom of Northern black people. Slave Narrative

African American Literature Slave Narrative Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Harriet Jacobs- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95) – ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’ (1845)

Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–95) Phillis Wheatley- (1753-84)

African American Literature Post-slavery era W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) original founders of NAACP in 1910. collection of essays entitled ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) Up From Slavery (1901)

African American Literature Jamaican Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), was a newspaper publisher, journalist, and activist for Pan Africanism founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA)

African American Literature Harlem Renaissance-1920 to 1940 Langston Hughes- ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’ in 1922 Zora Neale Hurston- Novelist- ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ (1937)

Langston Hughes-

African American Literature Civil Rights Movement Era Great Migration During World War II Settled in Chicago Richard Wright- Native Son (1940) James Baldwin Ralph Ellison- Invisible man (1940)

Ralph Ellison Richard Wright

African American Literature Black Drama: Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun Amiri Baraka

African American Literature Contemporary Black Literature Toni Morrison- Beloved- Nobel Prize Alice Walker- The Color Purple

Toni Morrison

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