The Waiting Years, Essays on American Negro Literature. [inscribed and signed by the author]

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Anthology of essays on Black American literature by Blyden Jackson, the first Black full professor at the University of North Carolina and the first Black professor at a traditionally White Southeastern university. Blyden is noted for his scholarship on the Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. Chapter titles here include “The Case for American Negro Literature”; “Richard Wright: Black Boy from America’s Black Belt and Urban Ghettos”; “Richard Wright in a Moment of Truth”; “A Review of J. L. Dillard’s Black English”; “The Minstrel Mode”; “Harlem Renaissance in the Twenties; and Jean Toomer’s Cane: An Issue of Genre.” This copy inscribed and signed by Blyden in the year of publication.

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