Stories Collection

  1. Kwadwo Agymah Kamau. Flickering Shadows. Minneapolis: Coffee House P, 1996. 298 pp. $...
  2. (Yankee Stadium -- July, 1978) two 4s on his back Wendell W. Ottley, III, was bor...
  3. Claudia Tate, Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race. New ...
  4. William Baer, ed. Conversations with Derek Walcott. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996....
  5. Allison Joseph. In Every Seam. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1997. 89 pp. $12.95 pap...
  6. The importance of folklore to black literature is widely acknowledged and documented....
  7. The pressing comb a mother's voice its hot breath. The scorching guilt of having ...
  8. Aimable Twagilimana. Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tr...
  9. Richard M. Leeson. Lorraine Hansberry: A Research and Production Sourcebook. Westport...
  10. In the climactic scene of Sally's Rape, African-American performance artist Robbie Mc...
  11. I Two A.M., strolling barefooted on soft wet grass by the Charles' smokey river...
  12. Francis Abernethy, Patrick Mullen, and Alan Govenar, eds. Juneteenth Texas: Essays in...
  13. Sandra Shannon. The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson. Washington: Howard UP, 1995. 25...
  14. In 1998, Nalo Hopkinson joined the ranks of Black science fiction writers like Samuel...
  15. Some say the voices here meander down silent alleys, filter through screen doors ...
  16. Crispin Sartwell. Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identit...
  17. Yvonne Shafer. August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook Westport: Greenwoo...
  18. Quashee and lone? Antonio felt jealousy turning like a worm in his belly. He didn't l...
  19. It comes of clay, wood and stone, carried, refined, molded somehow into one great...
  20. Cary 0. Wintz, ed. The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Vol. 3--Black Writers Interpret...
  21. Alice Walker. Anything We Love Can Be Saved. New York: Random, 1997. 225 pp. $23.00. ...
  22. Sandra Adell. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1994. 172 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Theodore...
  23. James Sallis, ed. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1996. 242 pp. $42.50 cloth/$17.95 paper...
  24. for E. Ethelbert Miller Can you dribble? Aw, man, you can't dribble. Do you know tr...
  25. i come . . . as a black woman down a corridor of tears . . . pulling my history with ...
  26. (for Michael Johnson, Olympic Champion - 1996) God must have cut you from a big BAA...
  27. Valerie Lee. New York: Routledge, 1996. 215 pp. $60.00. Reviewed by Kimberly Bloc...
  28. Samuel R. Delany. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1996. 382 pp. $50.00 cloth/$22.00 paper. ...
  29. It's the old teams you see at night in visions, the teams with faces as rare as not h...
  30. Sanctuary: bathroom locked, skeleton key in one hand, works in the other, she contemp...
  31. Many times man lives and dies Between his two eternities, That of race and that of so...
  32. Robert S. Levine. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997. 328 pp. $45.00 cloth/$18....
  33. Dewayne Wickham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995, 285 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by R...
  34. for Major L. Jackson & Theodore Harris Box cars and snake eyes, the Boston, full-ho...
  35. (Remembering Arna Bontemps, 1902-1973) A glass world of Negro people: blueblack nig...
  36. My father, by his nature, as well as by the habit of transacting business as a skil[l...
  37. Katherine Fishburn. Westport: Greenwood P, 1997. 195 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by Fran...
  38. Malcolm X, alias El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, alias Malcolm Little, alias Detroit Red - ...
  39. she makes the men wonder: and wonder is the mother of all things men will run back ...
  40. In 1947, casting the backward glance of a recent expatriate, Richard Wright observes ...
  41. Geta LeSeur. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1995. 245 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Alice A...
  42. Marilyn Nelson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1997.220 pp. $24.95 cloth/$ 16.95 pa...
  43. I posture between sheets laced in black. Ink absorbing into fibers of conversation un...
  44. her feet on the altar or raised to the blue sky not pressed to the earth where she ha...
  45. One April evening in 1980 Baldwin and I were reminiscing as fellow expatriates (I had...
  46. Chip Deffaa. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996. 318 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Darryl Co...
  47. On November 30, 1998, Margaret Walker Alexander, at the age of 83, died in Chicago. T...
  48. The moon kissed my womb and settled me into the life of everyone's someone, obliging ...
  49. You just know She descends from A wide-shoulder'd people. You know, by her carriage s...
  50. You've heard all this before. Mother falls asleep on the sofa, darkness wide-spread...
  51. Charles W. Chesnutt. Ed. Joseph R. McElrath Jr., and Robert C. Leitz, III. Princeton:...
  52. Race as Illness "To be ill is a feminine verb," quipped Dr. S. Weir Mitchell in 188...
  53. Cracked souls Finger in shadows cast from generations of dampness and barren light. A...
  54. No opposition mounted against it, no Challengers in the shadows, waiting in the wings...
  55. Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. 257 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Len ...
  56. Following in the footsteps of feminist scholarship there have, in recent years, been ...
  57. Within time and outside of franchise she came to be known as Saint Norma, Who winked ...
  58. (for Eddie Murray) It's the night before 2pac Gets gunned down And Mike Tyson will ...
  59. Patricia Sullivan. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996, 368 pp. $39.95 cloth/$17...
  60. Albert Murray. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.238 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Carolyn...
  61. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an extraordinary document - not, as some ske...
  62. When red clay dries and turns to dust, it can make almost anything seem like a sunset...
  63. In the clamor of crows I hear my own voice demanding to know if I'm nuts or just pl...
  64. i write because i really think i've got hold of something . . . that might enable som...
  65. Jon Michael Spencer. New York: New York UP, 1997. 220 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Kat...
  66. Toni Cade Bambara. Ed. with a preface by Toni Morrison. New York: Pantheon, 1996. 266...
  67. In Race Matters, Cornell West states that "the time is past for black political and i...
  68. What shall I tell you? Should I dive into the sad eyes of that girl Who walks on the ...
  69. for P. H. T. At the start they were lodestones, were miraculous. Had she yielded ...
  70. In a 1989 interview with Bonnie Angelo of Time magazine, Toni Morrison discussed the ...
  71. Stephen Caldwell Wright, ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996. 277 pp. $42.00. Review...
  72. In the summer of 1994, during the National Black Arts Festival held in Atlanta, Brent...
  73. Philip Page. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1995. 231 pp. $62.50. Reviewed by Karla Y. ...
  74. A Narratology of Free Voices Words walking without masters. (qtd. in Gates, Signifyin...
  75. Janet J. Montelaro. ELS Monograph Series 70. Victoria: U of Victoria, 1996.96 pp. $12...
  76. It was a terrible struggle between the two great forces - Right and Wrong. Drunken wi...
  77. June Jordan. New York: Vintage, 1994. 234 pp. $12.00. Reviewed by Carla Freccero Univ...
  78. Peace. In the round world there ain't nothing like it. Fields green with corn and tob...
  79. Fred D'Aguiar. New York: Pantheon, 1996. 206 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Heather Hathaway...
  80. Setting: The stage is divided horizontally into two sections, upper and lower, by a t...
  81. Michael Harper. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995. 138 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Calvin For...
  82. In her discussion of the maternal melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan notes that the mother is u...
  83. . . . Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been bo...
  84. William J. Wilson. New York: Knopf, 1996.322 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Daryl Michael Sc...
  85. In the last thirty-five years, Zora Neale Hurston's literary reputation has grown fro...
  86. Cary D. Wintz, ed., Vol. 4. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 382 pp. $75.00. Revie...
  87. In her essays and autobiography as well as in her fiction, Zora Neale Hurston used th...
  88. Robert B. Jones, ed. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1996. 160 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by K...
  89. In "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," the famous first chapter of The Souls of Black Folk,...
  90. Michael North, New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 255 pp. $39.95 cloth/$16.95 paper. Reviewed...
  91. Judith Anne Still, Michael J. Dabrishus, and Carolyn L. Quin. Westport: Greenwood P, ...
  92. The narrative of Harriet Jacobs's life in slavery and eventual escape, published the ...
  93. Belinda Elizabeth Jack. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996. 203 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by A. J...
  94. Moses Greg. New York: Guilford P, 1997. 256 pp. $23.95 Reviewed by Hans A. Baer Unive...
  95. It has become commonplace to suggest the similarities in the histories of the black a...
  96. Kim F. Hall. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995. 319 pp. $45.00 cloth/$17.95 paper. Reviewed by...
  97. Edythe Mae Gordon. Ed. Henry Louis Gates and Jennifer Burton. Intro. Lorraine Elena R...
  98. So much has been written on August Wilson's project to chronicle the African-American...
  99. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler, eds. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1995. 265 pp. $39...
  100. John Edgar Wideman, Boston: Houghton, 1996. 212 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Philip Page C...
  101. Lorraine Hansberry began drafting Les Blancs (The Whites) as early as 1960, soon afte...
  102. Patricia Guthrie. Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 1996. 156 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by John S...
  103. A drum roll roared, a crowd hissed, cymbals clashed, and a muscular young African wom...
  104. Albert J. Raboteau. Boston: Beacon P. 1995. 235 pp. $23.00 Reviewed by Dolan Hubbard ...
  105. Religious references, both from Western and African sources, abound in Toni Morrison'...
  106. Katie Geneva Cannon. New York: Continuum, 1995. 191 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by La Vinia ...
  107. Edward Said claims that "students of post-colonial politics have not . . . looked eno...
  108. Harry Red. Platform for Change: The Foundations of the Northern Free Black Community,...
  109. Critics of Jean Toomer's Cane disagree about the text's relation to the economic and ...
  110. African American literature often identifies and confronts political oppression, soci...
  111. John Lowe, ed. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995. 354 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Valerie ...
  112. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is a text at once (ac)claimed for i...
  113. Henry B. Wonham, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1996. 299 pp. $50.00 cloth/$18.95 pap...
  114. Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner, eds. Conversations with Chester Himes. Jackson: U...
  115. Scholastic success and failure is a prevalent theme in African American children's li...
  116. Reviewed by Eugene D. Genovese Atlanta, Georgia In Them Dark Days, William Dusinberre...
  117. Learning to read and write are two of the greatest accomplishments in the life of a c...
  118. Reviewed by Charles Scruggs University of Arizona The quotation in the title of Griff...
  119. During the fourth or fifth revision of my children's book The Secret of Gumbo Grove -...
  120. Reviewed by Robert J. Butler Canisius College Scholars and teachers have eagerly awai...
  121. African-American writers have long recognized that their literary expressions are int...
  122. Reviewed by Annette Kolodny University of Arizona Like a silent undertow, anxiety abo...
  123. In her Coretta Scott King Award acceptance speech, Virginia Hamilton said, "Literatur...
  124. Reviewed by Heather Ross Miller Washington and Lee University Carole Boston Weatherfo...
  125. Librarians still have the chance to grow with their libraries, and Negro youth come i...
  126. The work of picture-book artist Donald Crews is striking in its sharp-edged images of...
  127. This is a particularly appropriate time at which to reflect on the role of the Counci...
  128. When I was eight years old, my Aunt Jean gave me a book that she had hoped would end ...
  129. In a letter dated March 2, 1955, Langston Hughes wrote his longtime friend Arna Bonte...
  130. Let us hear the questions in their hearts and let us hear them with our hearts Let us...
  131. "Let the Portmans go to Ireland, but as you know nothing of the Manners there, you ha...
  132. Joyce Carol Thomas is a poet, novelist, and playwright. Through these three modes of ...
  133. The legend of John Henry has a rich and varied background. More than a century old, i...
  134. Virginia Hamilton is the most important author currently writing for children in the ...
  135. When Robert Penn Warren wrote his highly ironic line "Nigger, your breed ain't metaph...
  136. Reviewed by James Smethurst Harvard University Though the careers of many of the auth...
  137. Reviewed by Nicole R. King University of Maryland The death of C.L.R. James in 1989 a...
  138. Reviewed by Evelyn E. Shockley Duke University All memoirs are autobiographical, but ...
  139. It is late at night and still I am losing, But still I am steady and unaccusing. As l...
  140. Reviewed by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure University of Northern Iowa Robert Elliot Fox's b...
  141. Reviewed by Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University Not exactly a biography, Kent And...
  142. Reviewed by Jan Furman University of Michigan-Flint When Virginia Pryor, a slave and ...
  143. Every poet must confront a serious problem: how to reconcile one's private preoccupat...
  144. Richard Wright's depiction of Bigger Thomas, a young African American whose social en...
  145. Reviewed by George Hutchinson University of Tennessee, Knoxville According to Tracy M...
  146. Reviewed by James V. Hatch City University of New York In the opening of her book, Br...
  147. Reviewed by Dianne Johnson-Feelings University of South Carolina The note to the read...
  148. I would like to propose a method for reading the poetry of Sterling A. Brown in light...
  149. Reviewed by Molefi Kete Asante Temple University Errol Anthony Henderson has written ...
  150. Reviewed by Anthony G. Barthelemy University of Miami Gathered in this volume are aut...
  151. Reviewed by Christopher Brooks Virginia Commonwealth University After several "false"...
  152. When I first heard Sterling Brown reciting "Long Gone," I knew that I was in the pres...
  153. Reviewed by Peter Erickson Clark Art Institute It is no accident that Paul Gilroy's 1...
  154. Reviewed by Daryl Cumber Dance University of Richmond Growing up in Hanover, Virginia...
  155. Reviewed by Lovalerie King University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Alice Walker and ...
  156. Nearly fifty years ago, Sterling Brown lived a short distance across the street from ...
  157. Reviewed by Anthony G. Barthelemy University of Miami Black London undertakes to disp...
  158. Reviewed by Jennifer DeVere Brody University of California, Riverside Jacquelyn McCle...
  159. Reviewed by Gerald B. Jordan University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and The Philadelph...
  160. Discovery is manna from heaven for the researcher, and any little tidbit simply incre...
  161. Reviewed by Cheryl A. Wall Rutgers University "Disco Dancing in Bulgaria"? The title ...
  162. Reviewed by Donald B. Gibson Rutgers University Though Arnold Rampersad's biography o...
  163. Reviewed by Gerald B. Jordan University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and The Philadelph...
  164. When the judges of Opportunity's first literary contest awarded Sterling A. Brown Sec...
  165. Reviewed by Robert McColley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This is an exc...
  166. Reviewed by Bill Lyne Western Washington University As we await the possible publicat...
  167. Reviewed by Gerald B. Jordan University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and The Philadelph...
  168. In March 1989, the African Literature Association was meeting in Dakar, Senegal. The ...
  169. Reviewed by Dwight N. Hopkins The Divinity School of the University of Chicago Throug...
  170. Reviewed by Susan L. Blake Lafayette College One of five current or forthcoming title...
  171. Reviewed by Adrien Katherine Wing University of Iowa College of Law When a Jamaican i...
  172. During a stark winter, an old farmer dreams of planting his spring garden in Sterling...
  173. (contains samples of program music, "Gangsta's Paradise," and The Baptism) Every nigh...
  174. Reviewed by Claudia Tate Princeton University The Harlem Renaissance in Black and Whi...
  175. Reviewed by Nicole R. King University of Maryland The death of C.L.R. James in 1989 a...
  176. Reviewed by Bruce Jackson State University of New York, Buffalo This is a collection ...
  177. Stephen Steinberg. Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought ...
  178. Paula L. Woods, ed. Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery. Crime and Suspense...
  179. Paul Carter Harrison and Gus Edwards, eds. Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Comp...
  180. Sonia Sanchez. Wounded in the House of a Friend Boston: Beacon, 1995, 105 pp. $15.00....
  181. Charles T. Banner-Haley. The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and C...
  182. Robert J. Butler, ed. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood, 1...
  183. E. Ethelbert Miller, ed. In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-Ameri...
  184. Zora Neale Hurston opens her first collection of African-American folklore, Mules and...
  185. Robyn Wiegman. American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender. Durham: Duke UP, 1995....
  186. David Leeming. James Baldwin: A Biography. New York: Knopf. 1994. 457 pp. $15.95. ...
  187. Alan Spears, ed. Fast Talk, Full Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary African America...
  188. The concept of Black Power rests on a fundamental premise: Before a group can enter t...
  189. Victor Anderson. Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious...
  190. Eric J. Sundquist. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Boston: Bedfo...
  191. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, ed. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. Boston: Beacon, 1995. 2...
  192. On August 31, 1924, in New York City, Fourth International Convention of Negroes of t...
  193. Tejumola Olaniyan. Scars of Conquest/ Masks of Resistance. New York: Oxford UP, 1995....
  194. Kim Pereira. August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey. Urbana: U Illinois P. 19...
  195. Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. Shadow and Light: An Autobiography. Intros. by Booker T. Washin...
  196. Toni Morrison's exploration of desire seeps into every aspect of her novel Jazz, from...
  197. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. Chicago: U of Chicago Pres...
  198. Jo A. Tanner. Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress. Westpor...