Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced ...

Conversations with Caryl Phillips collects nineteen interviews conducted over more than two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean. While Phillips (b. 1958) admittedly tends to hide ...

Renee T. Schatteman is coauthor of the three-volume Voices from the Continent: A Curriculum Guide to African Literature and has published interviews with Caryl Phillips, Sindiwe Magona, and Zakes Mda.

Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black person appointed as a ...

A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past ...

Tunde Adeleke is professor of history and director of the African and African American Studies Program at Iowa State University. His books include the critically acclaimed UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth-Century ...

Roger deV. Renwick, a professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of English Folk Poetry: Structure and Meaning and of the supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in ...

Conversations with Julian Barnes collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents throughout the world with the author (b. 1946) of such highly praised ...

Annalisa Di Liddo is an independent scholar and translator based in Milan, Italy. She has been a contributor to Cityscapes: Islands of the Self; Londra tra memoria letterario e modernita; and Cross-Cultural ...

Chris Vials is assistant professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo State College. His work has appeared in Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, American Periodicals ...