African American Literature
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
The winner in 1994 of the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Lesson Before Dying, Gaines, whose career spans more than thirty-five years, continues to receive increasing critical and popular attention. ...
Dark Princess
The problem of “the color line,” W. E. B. Du Bois’s ever-present polemical theme, is at the core of this novel of sensual love, radical politics, and the quest for racial justice. Originally published ...
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
This collection of interviews with Amiri Baraka, the former LeRoi Jones and a key figure in the worldwide black liberation movement, provides extraordinary insight not only into African American literature ...
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Without apology Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison describes herself as an African American woman writer. These collected interviews reveal her to be much more. She has shared space in her creative life ...
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
Out of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice of “the princess of black poetry. ” Nikki Giovanni entered the literary world at the height of the ...
Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black ...
Conversations with Maya Angelou
One of so many talents could only be expected to talk superbly, too. Here in over two dozen interviews is the voice of Maya Angelou (1928–2014) telling with strength, warmth, honesty, and dignified ...