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Article: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Mississippi State University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, with William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Barbara T. Christian, Frances Smith Foster, Robert G. O'Meally, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense Spillers, Richard Yarborough. New York: Norton, 1997. xlvi, 2672 pp. $56.10 paper.
AFTER TEN YEARS OF ADVANCE PUBLICITY, the Norton Anthology of African American Literature appeared in 1997. For professors like me who regularly teach African-American literature, this was a most welcome event. No more would I have to cobble together a variety of paperbacks, photocopied materials from out-of-print sources, and a home-made ...