Stories Collection

  1. "One should try to locate power at the extreme points of its exercise," according to ...
  2. Chris Bongie. Islands and Exiles: The Creole identities of Post/Colonial Literature. ...
  3. Black liberation struggle must be re-visioned so that it is no longer equated with ma...
  4. Joanne V. Gabbin, ed. The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Charlottesvil...
  5. Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History. Camb...
  6. Steven C. Tracy, ed. Write Me A Few Of Your Lines: A Blues Reader. Amherst: U of Mass...
  7. "The St. Louis Blues," observed Langston Hughes in the summer of 1941, "is sung more ...
  8. Jared Gardner. Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature. Baltimore:...
  9. Quincy Troupe. Miles and Me. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000. 189 pp. $19.95. Thi...
  10. There might not be a region of the world that reflects the history of colonialism in ...
  11. Patricia Hill Collins. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. Minnea...
  12. J. Lee Greene. Blacks in Eden: The African American Novel's First Century. Charlottes...
  13. Nathaniel Mackey. Whatsaid Serif. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998, 112 pp. $12.95. ...
  14. We watch strange moods fill our children, and our hearts swell with pain. The streets...
  15. Hazel V. Carby. Race Men. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998. 228 pp. $24.00. In Race Men,...
  16. Rose Parkman Davis. Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide...
  17. Terrance Hayes. Muscular Music. Chicago: Tia Chucha P, 1999. 80 pp. $10.95. Terranc...
  18. The interview that follows was produced in a three-part process. The initial question...
  19. Seth Forman. Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism. New York: New York UP...
  20. Julius E. Thompson. Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in D...
  21. Jaki Shelton Green. Conjure Blues. Durham: Carolina Wren P, 1996. 93 pp. $10.95. In...
  22. On any highway in "Autumn Leaves," with Miles on mute Cannonball's date you are i...
  23. Tracy Mishkin. The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representat...
  24. Claudine Raynaud. Toni Morrison: L'esthdtique de la survie. Paris: Belin, 1996. 128 p...
  25. Mel Watkins. Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 320 ...
  26. "[On the slaveships, some Igbos] wished to die on the idea that they should then get ...
  27. Peacocks three of them under the birdfeeder cardinals hunting and pecking t...
  28. Maryemma Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke, and Marianna White Davis, eds. Teaching Afric...
  29. Bonnie TuSmith, ed. Conversations with John Edgar Wideman. Jackson: UP of Mississippi...
  30. Why did Occupation & Uplift come in? As a capitalistic empire, we needed surplus mark...
  31. That night as I lay in bed in the little town of Gabriel, a thousand miles from all t...
  32. Lawrence R. Rodgers. Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel. Urbana...
  33. Roberta S. Maguire, ed. Conversations with Albert Murray. Jackson: UP of Mississippi,...
  34. In his discussion of W. E. B. Du Bois's essay "On Alexander Crummell," the twelfth ch...
  35. Oct.'94, Plainfield, MA We park up off Lincoln St; men are working on the road, ...
  36. Phillip Page. Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction. Oxford: ...
  37. Francoise Pfaff, ed. Conversations with Maryse Conde. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1996....
  38. Perhaps the most resonant quality of quiltmaking is the promise of creating unity amo...
  39. For a human being who is an artist the life is one of twenty-four hours and b...
  40. George A. Thompson, Jr. A Documentary History of the African Theater. Evanston: North...
  41. Joan Herrington. "I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done": August Wilson's Process of Playw...
  42. The Supreme Court's decision in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case is notorious for hav...
  43. The wind is silent Rivers have no reflections Tell me who I am John the Baptist...
  44. Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens, eds. Strange Fruit Plays on Lynching by Amer...
  45. Elizabeth Nunez. Beyond the Limbo Silence. Seattle: Seal P, 1998. 320 pp. $24.00. E...
  46. Ira Berlin. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America....
  47. Kathleen A. Hauke. Ted Poston: Pioneer American Journalist. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1...
  48. Wanda Coleman. Bathwater Wine. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow P, 1998. 288 pp. $27.50 clot...
  49. Narration in Gayl Jones's work, particularly the narrating of the experience of New W...
  50. Jil Matus. Toni Morrison. New York: Manchester UP, 1998. 208 pp. $59.95. Jill Matus...
  51. Zora Neale Hurston's leap beyond national boundaries in her 1938 book of Caribbean fo...
  52. Steven Weisenburger. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from th...
  53. Lena did look good. She was looking like a woman from a Maya Angelou story. A charact...
  54. Gurleen Grewal. Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison. Ba...
  55. The poetry of sound ... marks the beginning of a new era ... of revolt against the tr...
  56. Charles W. Chesnutt. Paul Marchand, F. M. C. Intro. Matthew Wilson. Jackson: UP of Mi...
  57. Sandra Gunning. Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890...
  58. Gayl Jones. The Healing. Boston: Beacon, 1998. 283 pp. $23.00. "And when you discov...
  59. For scholars of early African-American literature, the question of influence can be p...
  60. Mark Anthony Neal. What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Popular Culture...
  61. Gayl Jones. Mosquito. Boston: Beacon P, 1999. 616 pp. $28.50. Language leaps from t...
  62. Frederick Douglass visited Rome in 1887 and described his sojourn in the concluding s...
  63. Lundeana Marie Thomas. Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre: Transformatio...
  64. John Edgar Wideman. Two Cities. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 242 pp. $24.00. The...
  65. The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past,...
  66. Lloyd L. Brown. The Young Paul Robeson. Boulder: Westview P, 1997. 187 pp. $24.00. ...
  67. We are difference....our reason is the difference of discourses, our history the diff...
  68. Tish Dace, ed. Langston Hughes: The Contemporary Reviews. New York: Cambridge UP, 199...
  69. In his introduction to Best American Short Stories 1996, John Edgar Wideman wrote tha...
  70. Eugenia C. DeLamotte. Places of Silence, Journeys of Freedom: The Fiction of Paule Ma...
  71. Never seen directly, talked over and around, first-named by everyone while titles ...
  72. Mark Solomon. The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936. Jackson...
  73. (For the Archives of Toni Cade Bambara) The way the story goes, a trespassing towhe...
  74. A soft note, not quite blue, yet still effective drips tears through air. It move...
  75. Belinda Edmondson. Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Car...
  76. (Reading Jayne Cortez) I'm using my plain brain to imagine her fancy cortex. As if ...
  77. In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois describes." Double-consciousness" as the...
  78. Life is ruled by Spaces, even I learned that much: In a square of light 20 feet a...
  79. Emily Miller Budick. Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation. New York: Cambridge UP...
  80. to Joan Ryan "You get them in trouble," A man told Sugar Ray. "It's my business...
  81. Over the decades since the publication of Invisible Man in 1952, anticipation in the ...
  82. For Mama with a wrench you removed a dripping faucet that kept time through the...
  83. Robert Butler. Contemporaty African American Fiction: The Open Journey. Teaneck: Fair...
  84. When winter's dry mouth licks the deep rich earth, rich folks rub the sleep from th...
  85. "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence," I said. "That's why I'm here." Amb...
  86. I. Find a real villain, not a misunderstood one. A real-live, baby-rapin', lyin'-chea...
  87. Julia Eichelberger. Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by...
  88. Readings of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) have often focused on t...
  89. On September 20-24, 1999, the poet, essayist, and short story writer Harryette Mullen...
  90. Sheree R. Thomas, ed. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African ...
  91. His lyric gift was incontestable and, indeed, exceptional. But his poetry has none of...
  92. Katherine Clay Bassard. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in E...
  93. James C. Hall, ed. Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
  94. Best known as a poet and playwright, Sonia Sanchez has also written short stories, ch...
  95. Kimberly Rae Connor. Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tr...
  96. Gloria L. Cronin. Critical Essays: Zora Neale Hurston. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998. 27...
  97. During the second week of May I stroke a tree in The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. ...
  98. Scott DeVeaux. The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History Berkeley: U of Califo...
  99. William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay, eds. Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Casebook, New...
  100. a la maniere de Cheney-Coker Ever since a white cop's bullet labeled you the usua...
  101. Craig Werner. A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America. New York: ...
  102. Charles Coe. Picnic On The Moon. Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog P, 1999. 79 pp. $12.95. On...
  103. Craig Werner. A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America. New York: ...
  104. Leon F. Litwack. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York:...
  105. Moira Ferguson. Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body. Charlottesville: UP o...
  106. Stuckey, Sterling. Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in ...
  107. One of the most interesting and frequently overlooked features of Frances E.W. Harper...
  108. John Higham, ed. Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World Wa...
  109. Robert B. Stepto. Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography. Boston: Beacon P, 1998. 209...
  110. Weinstein, Randy F. Against the Tide: Commentaries on a Collection of African America...
  111. When Elizabeth Keckley wrote her 1868 autobiography Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Yea...
  112. David Krasner. Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African-American Theat...
  113. Gloria Naylor. The Men of Brewster Place. New York: Hyperion, 1998. 173 pp. $22.95. ...
  114. Wintz, Cary D., ed. The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940: Vol. 1--The Emergence of the H...
  115. It's no accident that people like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were destroyed at ...
  116. Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism. Cambrid...
  117. A fixed law, an established rule: that is what immobilizes narrative. (Todorov 165) ...
  118. Barbara Johnson. The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gende...
  119. Sterling Plumpp. Ornate With Smoke. Chicago: Third World P, 1997. 103 pp. $12.95. I...
  120. As an epigraph to the section entitled "Lave Tete," the third section of her novel Pr...
  121. Gregory P. Lampe. Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845. East Lansing: Michi...
  122. Sonia Sanchez. Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums. Boston: Beacon P, 1998. 133 pp....
  123. Edward P. Jones is the author of Lost in the City, a collection of fourteen short sto...
  124. Albert J. Von Frank. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Bo...
  125. Felgar, Robert. Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issue...
  126. June Bug thought he heard a voice calling him to come help. After having fallen aslee...
  127. Chadwick-Joshua offers a spirited and often eloquent defense of Huckleberry Finn. Eve...
  128. Gregoire Henri. On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes. Trans. Thomas Cassirer and J...
  129. Daughter of a Baptist preacher, Zora Neale Hurston spoke from the pulpit every time t...
  130. Henry B. Wonham. Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne,...
  131. Pfeffer, Paula F. A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. Baton Rou...
  132. Writer as Reader Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth is a recounting of the Oe...
  133. Linden Peach, ed. Toni Morrison: Contemporary Critical Essays. New York: St. Martin's...
  134. Stewart, Jeffrey C., ed. Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP ...
  135. The trumpet's mouth is apology. We sit listening To Kind of Blue. Miles Davis B...
  136. Cary D. Wintz, ed. New York: Garland, 1996. 476 pp. $87.00. University of Arkansas,...
  137. in memory of Jimmy Garrison Sometimes I wish my fingers were thick enough to pl...
  138. Cary D. Wintz, ed. New York: Garland, 1996. Vol. 6, 504 pp., $83.00. Vol. 7, 482 pp.,...
  139. for my father If music can be passed on like brown eyes or a strong left hook, ...
  140. Femi Ojo-Ade, ed. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996. 192 pp. $59.95. Centre of West Afric...
  141. Melvin's dead. A cloud-nine moves a 4-step sway to the left in 5-part harmony; ...
  142. Michael Awkward. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. 225 pp. $14.95. University of Wisco...
  143. When writing about a canonical figure, one hopes for a measure of interest. And when ...
  144. April of 1966 was one of the most eventful and paradoxical months in the history of t...
  145. Deborah E. McDowell. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. 222 pp. $39.95 cloth/$12.95 paper...
  146. In this scene from James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, the enc...
  147. agency is the hiatus in iterability (Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter 220) transform...
  148. Dolan Hubbard, ed. Tennessee Studies in Literature 38. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1...
  149. As many times as we reopen slavery's closure, we are hurtled rapidly forward into the...
  150. My recent discovery Georgia Douglas Johnson's "lost" lynching plays ends a scholarly ...
  151. John Cullen Gruesser, ed. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1996. 248 pp. $39.95 cloth/$16....
  152. Leon Forrest was the author of four novels that effectively created an oral history o...
  153. James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. 340 pp. $35.00. ...
  154. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. 334 pp. $34.95. Universita di ...
  155. Not to plunge into the complex jungle of human relationships and analyze them is to l...
  156. Peter Hinks. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1997. 301 pp. $45.00. The Penn...
  157. Herbert William Rice. New York: Peter Lang, 1996. 155 pp. $35.95. University of Ill...
  158. In a recent article proposing a rethinking of the historiography of black working-cla...
  159. Gary Collison. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1997. 294 pp. $27.95. The Pennsylvania State ...
  160. Sharon Felton and Michelle C. Loris, ed. Westport: Greenwood P, 1997. 275 pp. $65.00....
  161. bell hooks has made the insightful remark "images that of race and representation hav...
  162. Samuel A. Hay. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997. 302 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Nathan ...
  163. The terms home and community are frequently uttered with reverence by feminists, non-...
  164. Wanda Coleman. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow P, 1996. 292 pp. $27.50 cloth/$15.00 paper. ...
  165. Ira Aldridge, the first important black American Shakespearean actor, had an odd but ...
  166. Albert French. New York: Anchor, 1997. 241 pp. $22.95 cloth/$12.95 paper. Reviewed ...
  167. Less than a quarter of the way into Richard Wright's The Long Dream, readers are face...
  168. Philip Weinstein. The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison. New York: Oxford UP, 1...
  169. Jervey Tervalon. 271 pp. New York: Morrow, 1994, $20.00 cloth/New York: Anchor, 1995,...
  170. Many writers of the black diaspora have embarked upon figurative journeys to the trou...
  171. Leonard Cassuto. The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. New York: C...
  172. The historical and sociopolitical context of Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Trad...
  173. Jeanne Rosier Smith. Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Berkeley: U of Cal...
  174. Though the medical and psychological literature contemporaneous with Pauline Hopkins ...
  175. James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian, eds. 1920-1940. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996. 467 p...
  176. Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then - our friends are not able t...
  177. Lynda Marion Hill. Washington: Howard UP, 1996. 269 pp. $29.00. Reviewed by Austr...
  178. If there is a single distinguishing feature of the literature of black women - and th...
  179. Arnold Rampersad. New York: Knopf, 1997. 512 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Hoyt Purvis ...
  180. A major concern of story-telling should be restoring values, reversing the erosion of...
  181. Edward Margolies and Michael Fabre. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997. 213 pp. $28.00....
  182. The Scissors Lady is here to get me. Something is cracking and popping on the stove...
  183. names do give humans power over what they name. walter ong Anjail Rashida Ahmad i...
  184. Sandra Hollin Flowers. African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s: Pens of ...
  185. Deborah McDowell. Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. New York: Scribner, 1997. 285 p...
  186. I met trombonist Clifton Anderson initially in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he was part ...
  187. Saidiya V. Hartman. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Ninetee...
  188. Joan Sherman, ed. The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetr...
  189. Toni Morrison. Paradise. New York: Knopf, 1998. 318 pp. $25.00. In the lyrical pros...
  190. The blues aesthetic is an ethos of blues people that manifests itself in everything d...
  191. Maggie Montesinos Sale. The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the P...
  192. Bernard W. Bell, Emily R. Groshoz, and James B. Stewart, eds. W. E. B. Du Bois on Rac...
  193. Alice Walker. By the Light of My Father's Smile. New York: Random, 1998. 219 pp. $22....
  194. In his autobiography Black Boy (1945), Richard Wright describes the desperate hunger ...
  195. Hugh Thomas. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. New Y...
  196. Charles W. Chesnutt. Mandy Oxendine. Ed. with an intro, by Charles Hackenberry. Urban...
  197. Patrick Chamoiseau. Solibo Magnificent. New York: Pantheon, 1998. 190 pp. $23.00. S...
  198. Plays representing the history of lynching in the United States are only beginning to...
  199. Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, and Helen Moglen, eds. Female Subjects in Black an...