Black Literature and Literary Theory

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has ...

Slave’s Narrative

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced...

Loose Canons

Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numer...

Signifying Monkey

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative and in Th...

Black Literature and Literary Theory

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has ...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Loose Canons

Colored People

You Don’t Know Us Negroes

Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and...

Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers