Richard Yarborough

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Richard Yarborough

Richard Yarborough
Occupation Professor
Nationality United States
Genres African American literature
Notable work(s) The Heath Anthology of American Literature (editor)

Richard Yarborough is an Associate Professor of English and African American literature at UCLA. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology Of American Literature.[1] Yarborough received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980.

Contents

[edit] Selected publications

Anthologies

  • The Heath Anthology Of American Literature (editor)[2]
  • Norton Anthology of African American Literature (editor)[3]

Introductions

  • Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
  • Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light: A Novel of Some Probability by John A. Williams. Northeastern; New Ed edition, 1999.
  • Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South by Pauline Hopkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Articles

  • "Race, Violence, and Manhood: The Masculine Ideal in Frederick Douglass's 'The Heroic Slave'" In Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Anne Jones and Susan Donaldson, eds. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1997:159-84
  • "Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel." In Literary Influence and African-American Writers. Tracy Mishkin (ed.). New York: Garland, 1996: 23-64.
  • "Black Authors, White Readers: Early Afro-American Fiction Writers and the Problem of Audience." In Lire en Amérique. Paris, France: Institut d'Etudes Anglophones, Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot, 1993: 33-46.
  • "Race, Violence, and Manhood: The Masculine Ideal in Frederick Douglass's 'The Heroic Slave.'" In Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Sundquist, Eric J. (ed.). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1991: 166-88.
  • " The First Person in Afro-American Fiction." In Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s. Houston A. Baker Jr. and Patricia Redmond (eds.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989:105-134.
  • "The Crisis in Afro-American Letters." College English, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 773-78, December 1981
  • "The Quest for the American Dream in Three Afro-American Novels: If He Hollers Let Him Go, The Street, and Invisible Man." MELUS, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 33-59, January 1981.

[edit] Awards

  • UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (1987)
  • Commendation from the City of Los Angeles (1990)
  • UCLA Outstanding Faculty Member by the African Student Union (1997)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Citations search: "Richard Yarborough" (Google Books)". Retrieved on 2008-06-03. 
  2. ^ The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Heath. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.
  3. ^ The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. W.W. Norton. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.

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