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Part I. Before Color Prejudice: Riddle / Cleobulus -- From Parzival / Wolfram von Eschenbach. |
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Part II. Arabian Nights and Italian Renaissance Novellas: From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night -- From Il Novellino / Masuccio Salernitano -- From Hecatommithi / Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio. |
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Part III. Love Poetry in Black and White: The Beautiful Slave-Girl / Giambattista Marino -- A Negress Courts Cestus, a Man of a Different Colour / George Herbert -- A Faire Nimph Scorning a Black Boy Courting Her / John Cleveland -- The Inversion, One Enamour'd on a Black-moor, A Black Nymph Scorning a Fair Boy Courting Her / Eldred Revett -- To Mrs. Diana Cecyll, The Brown Beauty, Sonnet of Black Beauty, Another Sonnet to Black It Self / Edward Herbert -- In Laudem Ethiopissae / James de la Cour. |
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Part IV. From Colonial Exoticism and the Noble Savage to Antislavery Writing: The Isle of Pines / Henry Neville -- From Oroonoko : A Tragedy in Five Acts / Thomas Southerne -- On a Young Lady's Weeping at Oroonooko, To a Gentleman in Love with a Negro Woman / John Whaley -- Two Versions of the Story of Inkle and Yarico -- The Dying Negro / Thomas Day, John Bicknell -- Letter to James Tobin / Olaudah Equiano. |
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Part V. Black and White in Europe and the Americas, 1800-1870: The Engagement in Santo Domingo / Heinrich von Kleist -- Ourika / Claire de Duras -- The Blackamoor of Peter the Great / Alexander Pushkin -- The Quadroons / Lydia Maria Child -- From Georges / Alexandre Dumas -- From Beyond the Seas / Theodor Storm -- The Quadroon Girl / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The Pilot's Story / William Dean Howells -- From Mulatto : An Original Romantic Drama in Five Acts / Hans Christian Andersen -- The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana : A Play in Five Acts / Dion Boucicault -- From Black and White : A Drama in Three Acts / Wilkie Collins, Charles Fechter -- From Miscegenation : The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro / David Goodman Croly, George Wakeman. |
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Part VI. Realism and Local Color: Madame Delphine / George Washington Cable -- From The Pariah / James Edwin Campbell -- Boitelle / Guy de Maupassant -- The Father of Desiree's Baby / Kate Chopin -- Uncle Wellington's Wives / Charles W. Chesnutt. |
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Part VII. Harlem Renaissance and Modernism: The Mulatto to His Critics / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- The Octoroon, Cosmopolite, The Riddle / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- From The Vengeance of the Gods / William Pickens -- Hope / Waldo Frank -- Withered Skin of Berries / Jean Toomer -- Confession / Margery Latimer -- All God's Chillun Got Wings / Eugene O'Neill -- Near White, Two Who Crossed a Line / Countee Cullen -- Cross, Mulatto, Mulatto : A Tragedy of the Deep South / Langston Hughes -- The Mulatto, Near-White / Claude McKay -- The Pink Hat / Caroline Bond Day -- Ballad of Pearl May Lee / Gwendolyn Brooks. |
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Part VIII. From the 1960s to the Present: The Owl Answers / Adrienne Kennedy -- From Oxherding Tale / Charles Johnson -- From The Darker Face of the Earth / Rita Dove -- From Buck / Francesca J. Petrosino -- From The Secret Life of Fred Astaire / Itabari Njeri. |
| Local note | Little-473577--305131069404- |
| Local note | Little-473577--305131069404- |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 667-671) and index. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Literary collections. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Anthologie. |
| LCCN | 2003056105 |
| ISBN | 0814781438 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814781432 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814781446 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814781449 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
