African American Authors Translated into Chinese

 

Works written by African Americans authors have been embraced and translated by people throughout the world.  Who are these authors?  What works were translated?  Join us for a presentation of Library of Congress resources that highlight African American authors who have been translated into Chinese.  Invited guest, Dr. Xilao Li, professor of English, Harper College, IL, will share his insight into the history of these translations and the Chinese appreciation of African American authors.  Presented by the librarians at the Library of Congress.

 

 

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF FREED PERSONS

 

Frederick Douglass

The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

 

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave, The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925, American Memory - http:/hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbcb.25385

 

Frederick Douglass, September 3, Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep03.html

 

Frederick Douglass House, Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(DC0092))

 

 

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington, September 18, Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep18.html

 

 

PRIMER POETS

 

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar, June 27, Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun27.html

 

Photograph of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Exhibit of American Negroes, American Treasures Exhibition - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm204.html

 

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes, February 1, Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb01.html - hughes

 

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941, Words and Deeds in American History, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/024))

 

Langston Hughes and his Poetry by David Kresh, Journeys and Crossings webcast - http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/hughes.html

 

Claude Mckay

Photograph of Claude McKay, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c05919

 

Census of 1920 in Time Line of African American History, 1901 – 1925, African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html

 

 

 

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston, January 7, Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan07.html

 

The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/znhhome.html

 

Toni Morrison

Photograph of Toni Morrison, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c01781

 

Toni Morrison, Living Legend Award Recipient, Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/about/awards/legends/bio/morrison.html

 

Tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, Aug. 24, 1994, Congressional Record - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r103:FLD001:S62465

 

Immigration -African - New Beginnings, African section, Immigration Feature, Learning Page - http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/african10.html

 

 

 

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison Practices, American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 – 1940, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro12.html

 

Ralph Ellison:  A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division - http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/ellison.html

 

Visible Man:  Library Receives Ralph Ellison’s Papers. Information Bulletin, April 1, 1996 - http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9606/ellison.html

 

James Baldwin

James Baldwin, August 2, Today in History -

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug02.html

 

Richard Wright

Photograph of Richard Wright, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/van.5a52815

 

The Midwest, Language of the Land:  Journeys Into Literary America, Exhibitions - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/land/landmidw.html

 

 

List of Authors’ Works Translated into Chinese

 

Baldwin, James

Another Country

Go Tell It on the Mountain

If Beale Street Could Talk

 

Douglass, Frederick

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

“We Wear the Mask”

 

Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man

 

Hughes, Langston

Not without Laughter

 

Hurston, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 

McKay, Claude

A Long Way From Home:  The Autobiography of Claude McKay

 

Morrison, Toni

Beloved
The Bluest Eyes
The Song of Solomon
Sula

 

Washington, Booker T.

Up from Slavery (Chinese translation= A Great Man:  Booker T. Washington)

 

Wright, Richard

Black Boy
Native Son