Twelve original essays by one of our most respected and widely read American literature scholars ...

Group. Art. Text. Genre. Performance. Context. Tradition. Identity. No matter where we are--in ac...

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of ...

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of ...

Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr. s character and persona in works of Africa...

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacemen...

New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, c...

New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, c...

This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in ...

This book examines twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction films that rep...

Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical c...

Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American wr...