#22 Graphic Classics

Graphic Classics, Volume 22: African-American Classics

Lance Tooks
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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 featured are eleven poems, including Langston Hughes' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro", plus Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy" ('I know why the caged bird sings...')
Genres: Graphic NovelsAfrican AmericanClassicsPoetryAnthologiesGraphic Novels ComicsShort StoriesFictionHistorical FictionLiterature
144 Pages

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