In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the notable ...
What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison ...
Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as "an outsider between two cultures," a man searching.
In these twelve essays written over the last two decades Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, ...
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces—nationalism and Marxism—clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with ...
This stimulating study of black literature of the 1960s is an analysis of a period of American history through the literary art it produced.
In Connecting Times Norman Harris focuses on how Afro-Americans ...
Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging ...
This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career ...
The flourishing of pre-Civil War literature known as the American Renaissance occurred in a volatile context of national expansion and sectional strife. Canonical writers such as Herman Melville, Walt ...
Audre Lorde (1934–1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a “Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother,” but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her ...
In 1982, one year after graduating from Brooklyn College, Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) made her debut on the literary scene with The Women of Brewster Place. The novel was critically acclaimed, filmed as a ...