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The Crisis Reader

Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine

Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson

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English
Modern Library Inc
15 March 1999
After its start in 1910, The Crisis- A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem ""The Negro Speaks of Rivers"" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming ""renaissance of American Negro literature,"" beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance.

The Crisis Reader is a collection of poems, short stories, plays, and essays from this great literary period and includes, in addition to four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson, work by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Charles Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke.
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Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   544g
ISBN:   9780375752315
ISBN 10:   0375752315
Pages:   464
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sondra Kathryn Wilson is a senior researcher at Harvard's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, and editor of several volumes of the work of James Weldon Johnson. She lives in New York City.

Reviews for The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine

The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great <br>literature and art. --James Weldon Johnson <br> Until The Crisis Reader, no broad collection of writings from one of America's most influential journals of opinion existed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson has remedied this amazing lacuna with her excellent edition. It will be an indispensable source from the moment of issue. <br>--David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography W. E. B. Du Bois <br> The Crisis Reader offers riches from the heyday of black America' s most significant journal. Here are all the now famous names and their now famous poems and articles, and others undeservedly unknown today. Any serious student of black literature and politics will want this volume, as will those many others who long for a look at yesterday, when black bards sang. --Julian Bond, chairman of the board, N.A.A.C.P.


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