Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition

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Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
AuthorPatricia Liggins Hill (general editor), Bernard W. Bell (editor), Trudier Harris (editor), William J. Harris (editor), R. Baxter Miller (editor), Sondra A. O'Neale (editor)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAfrican American literature
GenreAnthology
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
Publication date
April 1997 (1st edition)
Media typeHardcover, paperback, Audio CD, CD-ROM
Pages2,039
ISBN978-0-395-88404-1 (1st edition hardcover)
OCLC37276956
810.8/0896073 21
LC ClassPS508.N3 C56 1998

Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition is a compilation of literary and cultural works that originated from call and response patterns in African and African-American cultural traditions.[1] The 1997 anthology includes works representing the centuries-long emergence of this distinctly Black literary and cultural aesthetic in fiction, poetry, drama, essays, sermons, speeches, criticism, journals, and song lyrics from spirituals to rap.[2] Writings ranging from Queen Latifah to Phyllis Wheatley and LeRoi Jones are included within this volume. This anthology asserts that these various artistic forms comprise a Black aesthetic.[3]

The anthology, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, organizes its selections around three themes: the pattern of call and response, the journey toward freedom, and major historical events in the African-American experience. The anthology editors have woven together selections, critical analysis of the texts, historical background, and biographies into a scholarly, unified, and chronological approach to African-American literature and culture. Patricia Liggins Hill of the University of San Francisco served as general editor of the anthology.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eichelberger, Julia (1999). "Review: "Acts of Love": Two Anthologies of African American Literature". Mississippi Quarterly. 53:1: 111–129.
  2. ^ Reaves, Kya; Gibson, Ebony (2013-06-07). "To Belong or Not to Belong?: A Literature Review to Determine the Past, Current, and Future States of the African American Canon". Papers & Publications: Interdisciplinary Journal of Undergraduate Research. 2 (1). ISSN 2325-2502.
  3. ^ Fontenot, Chester J.; Gates, Henry Louis (1998). "Review of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition". CLA Journal. 41 (4): 477–493. ISSN 0007-8549.
  4. ^ Fox, Robert Elliot (1998). "Shaping an African American Literary Canon". Postmodern Culture. 9 (1). doi:10.1353/pmc.1998.0035. ISSN 1053-1920.
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