Graphic Classics Vol #22 African American Classics

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Graphic Classics Vol #22 African American Classics
Publisher: Eureka Productions
Language: English
Digital Release Date: April 10th, 2012
Rated Teen/Young Adults (ages 13+)

Price: $7.99

Description

AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS presents great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eleven poems, including Langston Hughes' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro", plus Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy" ('I know why the caged bird sings…'). Full color.