title: Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing
author: Deirdre Mullane
description: This is an unusual array of writings by African Americans. Beginning with Olaudah Equiano's 1789 slave narrative and ending with Congresswoman Maxine Waters's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in 1992 on the Los Angeles riots, this welcome anthology brings together a diversity of voices. It includes fiction, autobiography, poetry, songs, and letters by such writers as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Many topics are covered, from slavery, education, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and political issues to spirituals, songs of the Civil Rights movement, and rap music. To conclude, there's the surprising addition of Jesse Jackson's 1984 address to the Democratic National Convention. This book supersedes Richard A. Long and Eugenia W. Collier's Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry (Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., 1985). Essential for literary collections.<br /><i>- Ann Burns, "Library Journal"</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: African Writers Talking 
  
  Among the books written and discussed by 
  the authors interviewed in African Writers Talking, 
  the following are published by AFR I CA N  A: 
  Wole Soyinka 
  The Interpreters 
  Christopher Okigbo 
  Labyrinths with 'Path of Thunder' 
  Mazisi Kunene 
  Zulu Poems 
  John Pepper Clark 
  America, Their America 
  Casualties, Poems r966/68 
  
  African Writers Talking 
  A collection of 
  radio interviews 
  Edited by 
  C O S M O  P I E T E R S E  & D E N NI S  D U E R D E N  
  A F RICANA P U B LI S HI N G  C O R P O RATI ON 
  NEW Y O R K  
  
  Published 
  in the United States of America 1972 
  by Africana Publishing Corporation 
  ror Fifth Avenue 
  New York, NY 10003 
  '.1;) Dennis Duerden and Cosmo Pieterse 1972 
  in selection and editorial matter 
  First published 1972 
  All rights reserved 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72-75255 
  ISBN o-8419-ou8-X (cloth) 
  0-8419-0 II 9-8 (paper) 
  Printed in Great Britain 
  
  Contents 
  Introduction 
  vii 
  C H I N U A  A C HEBE 
  interviewed by Lewis Nkosi 
  3