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

A collection of critical essays on James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.

Profiling writers from Sojourner Truth to Toni Morrison, this 'Concise Companion' is one of the m...

The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical gui...

Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and ...

Southern literature is often celebrated for its 'told,' rather than 'written,' qualities. Drawing...

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

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

African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose t...

Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

This volume-one of six DLB volumes discussing African-American writers-represents a peak period i...

Among the African-American writers featured in this volume are Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, N...

In James Baldwin's fiction, according to Trudier Harris, Black women are conceptually limited fig...

In African-American literary history, one of the most striking phenomena has been the tremendous ...

With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging ap...

Southern literature is often celebrated for its 'told,' rather than 'written,' qualities. Drawing...

Among the African-American authors featured in this volume are James Madison Bell, Charles Chestn...

From Mammies to Militants

From Mammies to Militants

A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in the debates ov...