Stories Collection

  1. E. Ethelbert Miller. Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer. New Y...
  2. As an artist steeped in African American tradition and culture, Leon Forrest consiste...
  3. Oscar Micheaux is best known as one of America's first black film makers. In a highly...
  4. Abrahams, Peter. The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Medit...
  5. In Vintage: Families of Value (1995) Anita Jones proclaims, "I have chose to do like ...
  6. Darryl Dickson-Carr. African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel. Columbia: U...
  7. Recent theoretical work has examined the ways that the abstract idea of the bodiless ...
  8. Dickson D. Bruce. The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865. Charlottesvi...
  9. In his insightful essay "A Black Man's Place(s) in Black Feminist Criticism," Michael...
  10. Jeffrey J. Folks. From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modem and Postmodem...
  11. Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 714 pp. $63.95....
  12. The authoritarian relation between the one who commands and the one who obeys rests n...
  13. Charles E. Wilson, Jr. Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood P, 20...
  14. Rita Dove's verse drama The Darker Face of the Earth is a curiously important text in...
  15. Charles Johnson. Soulcatcher and Other Stories. San Diego: Harvest Original, 2001. 12...
  16. Wai' a minit, wai' a minit. Hol' up! Speak one at a time. This is not The Jerry Sprin...
  17. Prologue In several interviews, Ralph Ellison joins many of his readers in resolvin...
  18. Michael S. Harper. Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Selected Poems. Urbana: U of Ill...
  19. The element of carnival-masquerade offers a wide lens through which to view black-whi...
  20. Askia M. Toure. Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Toure. Chicago: Third World P, 20...
  21. Midway through Arthur Flowers' 1993 novel Another Good Loving Blues, Zora Neale Hurst...
  22. Adam Lively. Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. 2...
  23. Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) seeks to re-imagine agency as a function of coalition...
  24. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., ed. Is It Nation Time?. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002. 269 pp. ...
  25. The idea of reincarnation is not alien or foreign....The resurgence of spirits and th...
  26. Debbie Lee. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination. Philadelphia: U or Pennsylvania P, ...
  27. Harryette Mullen. Sleeping with the Dictionary. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002. 85...
  28. Nell Irvin Painter. Southern History Across the Color Line. Chapel Hill: U of North C...
  29. Claudia Tate, Professor of English at Princeton University and longtime advisory edit...
  30. Linda M. Grasso. The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America...
  31. Bud and Ruth Schultz. The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repressions in A...
  32. Historians, journalists, sociologists, political scientists, and theologians have bee...
  33. Karen E. Beardslee. Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tr...
  34. The first time I saw Alexs Pate I was startled. I couldn't believe that this man--cla...
  35. Richard Iton. Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left. Chapel Hill: U ...
  36. [Interviewer] it is nearly a cliche to say that Robert Hayden has the best undergroun...
  37. Following the publication of Mumbo Jumbo in 1972, Ishmael Reed proclaimed it "the bes...
  38. Lynn Orilla Scott. James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey. East Lansin...
  39. In the late 1960s, at the height of her career, Gwendolyn Brooks .changed publishers,...
  40. Jazz, the product of slavery, segregation, poverty, and disenfranchisement, is many t...
  41. Mark Anthony Neal. Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic. Ne...
  42. Justice is pictured blind and her daughter, the law, ought at least to be color-blind...
  43. David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge: Belkn...
  44. Laura Browder. Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Cha...
  45. Jeffery Renard Allen. Rails Under My Back. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000. 563 pp. $14.00....
  46. Now hear this and, beyond all doubt, believe it: the good of grace is in exact propor...
  47. Maghan keita. Race and the Writing of History. New York: Oxford UP, 2000. 214 pp. $45...
  48. Simone A. James Alexander. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women. Colu...
  49. Stanley Crouch. Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing. New York: P...
  50. The American South, a landscape of contradiction and continuity, is cast as a reposit...
  51. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy. Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary ...
  52. Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence. Writing Himself Into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Sil...
  53. Kevin Everod Quashie, Joyce Lausch, and Keith D. Miller, eds. New Bones: Contemporary...
  54. On November 8, 1935, blind and eighty-nine years old, Elizabeth Nietzsche--sister of ...
  55. C. K. Doresk. Writing America Black: Race Rhetoric in the Public Sphere. New York: Ca...
  56. Genevieve Fabre and Michael Feith, eds. Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance. New B...
  57. O God, O God, if she doesn't stop that damn racket I'm going to beat her unconscious!...
  58. Jerry Bryant. Victims and Heroes: Racial Violence in the African American Novel. Amhe...
  59. Emily Bernard, ed. Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van...
  60. Broken glass was all in my brain It use to fall out my dreams and Cut me in my bed......
  61. Venetria K. Patton. Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction. ...
  62. Ayana karanja, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice. new york: lang, 1999. 176...
  63. EST I chose this jet and put the Atlas logo on the tail when it was green, fresh of...
  64. Alden Lynn Nielsen, ed. Reading Race in American Poetry: "An Area of Act". Urbana: U ...
  65. John N. Duvall. The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and...
  66. I remember walking up through the dirt, the sun at my shoulders guiding me to the bri...
  67. John Cullen Gruesser. Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing Abou...
  68. Marc C. Conner, ed. The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable. Jackso...
  69. The stereotypes through which American popular culture often interprets and represent...
  70. Michael Bennett and Vanessa Dickerson, ed. Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Rep...
  71. Elijah Wald. Josh White: Society Blues. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2000. 336 pp. ...
  72. Sometime in 1772, a young African girl walked demurely into a room in Boston to under...
  73. Debra Walker King, ed. Body Politics and the Fictional Double. Bloomington: Indiana U...
  74. Michael Eric Dyson. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. Ne...
  75. Representing middle-class, "moral" African Americans in Contending Forces: A Romance ...
  76. Claudette M. Williams. Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribb...
  77. Dunbar, Alice Moore, ed. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, 1818-1913. Intro. Manning M...
  78. In the ancient Greek novel Ethiopica, written by Heliodorus sometime in the fourth ce...
  79. Bernard W. Bell, ed. Clarence Major and His Art. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, ...
  80. Early, Gerald, ed. "Ain't But a Place": An Anthology of African American Writings Abo...
  81. As many scholars of historical anthropology have noted, in taxonomizing difference, "...
  82. Charles Duncan. The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt. Athens: O...
  83. Felgar, Robert. Student Companion to Richard Wright. Westport: Greenwood P, 2000. 134...
  84. From the first image that greeted readers of his book, Olaudah Equlano presented th...
  85. Ikenna Dieke, ed. Critical Essays on Alice Walker. Westport: Greenwood, 1999. 226 pp....
  86. Suggs, Jon-Christian. Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American L...
  87. Talking to Reginald McKnight is like scanning an imaginary worldwide radio dial. At a...
  88. Samuel R. Delany. Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary. M...
  89. Williams, John A. Safari West: Poems. Montreal: Hochelaga P, 1998. 78 pp. $10.95. B...
  90. Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy," writes W. E. B. Du Bois L in Black Reconstruction, "t...
  91. Michael Awkward. Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir. Durham: Duke UP, 1999. 208 pp. $24....
  92. Many scholars, including Margaret B. Wilkerson, note that Lorraine Hansberry was the ...
  93. Afaa Michael Weaver. Multitudes: Poems Selected & New. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Book...
  94. In his book August Wilson and the African American Odyssey, Kim Pereira briefly engag...
  95. George Elliot Clarke Gold Indigoes. Durham, NC: Carolina Wren P, 2000. 28 pp. $12.95....
  96. Sieglinde Lemke. Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlanti...
  97. Reginald Shepherd. Wrong. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1999. 104 pp. $12.95. One ...
  98. Fahamisha Patricia Brown. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular ...
  99. Costanzo, Angelo, ed. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gu...
  100. Much recent interest in the drama of Adrienne Kennedy has been spawned by the publica...
  101. Will Counts. A Life Is More Than A Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central...
  102. The 1997 reissue of Frank J. Webb's 1857 novel of free Black life in antebellum Phila...
  103. Jon Woodson. To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance. Jacks...
  104. Kenneth Mostern. Audiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth ...
  105. Heather Hathaway. Caribbean Waves. Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall. Bloomi...
  106. Janet Gabler-Hover. Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural...
  107. Maria Diedrich. Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing & Frederick Douglass. New Yor...
  108. Throughout the twentieth century, African-American writers have faced what James Weld...
  109. Elizabeth Young. Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War. Ch...
  110. Christine Rauchfuss Gray. Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African-American Dr...
  111. Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Ch...
  112. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primit...
  113. Missy Dehn Kubitschek. Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood, 1998...
  114. Out of the three volumes of Toni Morrison's trilogy starting with Beloved (1987) and ...
  115. Robert F. Reid-Pharr. Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American. Ne...
  116. Claybome Carson, ed. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Vol. III: Birth of a New A...
  117. In her most recent novel, Paradise (1998), Toni Morrison offers us the story of a sma...
  118. Mark Helbling. The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many. Westport: Greenwood, 199...
  119. Toni Cade Bambara. Those Bones Are Not My Child. New York: Pantheon, 1999. 676 pp. $2...
  120. Kevin Willmott is, by necessity, a person of many talents. As an independent filmmake...
  121. Olga Barrios and Bernard W. Bell, eds. Contemporary Literature in the African Diaspor...
  122. Primus St. John. Communion: Poems, 1976-1998. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon P, 199...
  123. Nothing is experienced by itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the seq...
  124. James M. Salem. The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Rol...
  125. Ruth Ellen Kocher. Desdemona's Fire. Detroit: Lotus P, 1999. 62 pp. $12.00. This sh...
  126. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early NineteenthCentury B...
  127. Robert J. Butler, ed. The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison. Westport: Greenwood P, ...
  128. Dale E. Peterson. Up From Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American So...
  129. Marilyn Elkins, ed. August Wilson: A Casebook. New York: Garland, 2000. 228 pp. $26.9...
  130. Teddy Harris's work is the modernism of everyday perception and rationale. He makes w...
  131. African American Review, Volume 35, Number 4 [C]2001 James Smethurst Robert Shulman...
  132. Yusef Komunyakaa. Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries. Ann Arbor: U of M...
  133. Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial ...
  134. William Arnett, ed. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South: V...
  135. Elizabeth Nunez. Bruised Hibiscus. Seattle: Seal P, 2000. 286 pp. $24.95 cloth/$13.95...
  136. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story ...
  137. William Henry Singleton. Recollections of My Slavery Days. Intro. Katherine Mellen Ch...
  138. Somehow, somewhere, black writers and creators had lost control of their subjects and...
  139. James Walvin. An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1799. Ne...
  140. Toi Derricotte. Natural Birth. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 2000. 86 pp. $10.95. "I...
  141. "So 'tain't no use in me telling you somethin' unless Ah give you de understandin' to...
  142. Mary Kemp Davis. Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the S...
  143. Anthony Butts. Fifth Season: Poems. Chelsea, MI: New Issues P, 1997. 52 pp. $12.00. ...
  144. The judge interrupted me angrily. "All right," said he, "that's enough, I want no s...
  145. Cheryl A. Wall, ed. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook. Ne...
  146. Whether the motto on the Oven is "Beware the Furrow of His Brow," "Be the Furrow of H...
  147. D. Quentin Miller, ed. Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen. Philadelphia: Templ...
  148. Cecil Pettaway had many lovers. Each one had something he coveted, something perfect ...
  149. J. Brooks Bouson. Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni M...
  150. Richard Wright's Native Son is still usually taken as one of the foremost examples of...
  151. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu. Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Stave Narrative: Fem...
  152. Elaine and Harry Mensh. Black, White & Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dr...
  153. Old man Ferguson was snoring with his stupid ass self. And his feet was stinking. I k...
  154. Eva Boesenberg. Gender-Voice-Vemacular. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 199...
  155. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., ed. Critical Essays on Charles W. Chesnutt. New York: G. K. ...
  156. Although Jayne Cortez is one of the most popular poets in the United States, few crit...
  157. Bill V. Mullen. Popular Fronts: Chicago and American Cultural Politics, 1935-46. Urba...
  158. Raymond Nelson, ed. "Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems. By Melvin B. Tolson. Intro, by ...
  159. There's no way to not pass The Pita Hut and the men who come early to wait. Today, it...
  160. William J. Maxwell. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Betwe...
  161. Marvin X (Marvin E. Jackmon) [El Muhajir]. Somethin' Proper: The Life and Times of a ...
  162. There ought to be a Negro play written by a Negro that no white could ever have conce...
  163. James Edward Smethurst. The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poe...
  164. Margaret Earley Whitt. Understanding Gloria Naylor. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, ...
  165. How does August Wilson view his plays and the process by which he creates them? Where...