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- "After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement
- "Color struck" under the gaze : ethnicity and the pathology of being in the plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy
- "Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)
- "I ain't sorry for nothin' I done" : August Wilson's process of playwriting
- "Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)
- "The changing same" : black women's literature, criticism, and theory
- "The inside light" : new critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston
- "Who set you flowin'?" : the African-American migration narrative
- 'Bitter with the past but sweet with the dream : communism in the African American imaginary : representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952
- A Sourcebook of African-American performance : plays, people, movements
- A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
- A freedom bought with blood : African American war literature from the Civil War to World War II
- A historical guide to Ralph Ellison
- A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama
- A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912
- A world of difference : an inter-cultural study of Toni Morrison's novels
- Aberrations in black : toward a queer of color critique
- African American mystery writers : a historical and thematic study
- African American servitude and historical imaginings : retrospective fiction and representation
- African American writing : a literary approach
- African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison
- Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels
- Afro-American literary study in the 1990s
- Afro-American poetics : revisions of Harlem and the Black aesthetic
- Afro-blue : improvisations in African American poetry and culture
- Against a sharp white background : infrastructures of African American print
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston : the common bond
- Amalgamation! : race, sex, and rhetoric in the nineteenth-century American novel
- America and the black body : identity politics in print and visual culture
- American Lazarus : religion and the rise of African-American and Native American literatures
- Anger, and beyond : the Negro writer in the United States
- Ann Petry's short fiction : critical essays
- At home in diaspora : Black international writing
- August Wilson : a casebook
- August Wilson : a research and production sourcebook
- August Wilson and Black aesthetics
- August Wilson and the African-American odyssey
- August Wilson's Fences : a reference guide
- August Wilson's Pittsburgh cycle : critical perspectives on the plays
- Autobiography in black and brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez
- Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer"
- Bigger Thomas
- Black Dionysus : Greek tragedy and African American theatre
- Black New England letters : the uses of writing in Black New England : lectures delivered for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Boston Public Library, Learning Library Program
- Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
- Black and white strangers : race and American literary realism
- Black comedy : nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays
- Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance
- Black feminism in contemporary drama
- Black girl magic : BreakBeat poets ; volume 2
- Black girlhood in the nineteenth century
- Black imagination and the middle passage
- Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years
- Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions
- Black poets of the United States; : from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes.
- Black portraiture in American fiction; : stock characters, archetypes, and individuals
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
- Black women intellectuals : strategies of nation, family, and neighborhood in the works of Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Fauset, and Marita Bonner
- Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject
- Black, white, and Huckleberry Finn : re-imagining the American dream
- Black/gay : the Harlem Renaissance, the protest era, and constructions of black gay identity in the 1980s and 90s
- Blackness and modernism : the literary career of John Edgar Wideman
- Blinded by the whites : why race still matters in 21st-century America
- Blood talk : American race melodrama and the culture of the occult
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Breaking broken English : Black-Arab literary solidarities and the politics of language
- Bridging the Americas : the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
- Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature
- Buying whiteness : race, culture, and identity from Columbus to Hip Hop
- Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a critical assessment
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora
- Charles Johnson in context
- Charles Johnson's novels : writing the American palimpsest
- Charles Johnson's spiritual imagination
- Charles W. Chesnutt : a study of the short fiction
- Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle : the novels of Toni Morrison
- Claude McKay : a black poet's struggle for identity
- Collusions of fact & fiction : performing slavery in the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker
- Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
- Color, sex & poetry : three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
- Conditions of the present : selected essays
- Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic
- Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America
- Contemporary African American literature : the living canon
- Conversations with Chester Himes
- Conversations with Ernest Gaines
- Conversations with John Edgar Wideman
- Critical essays on Charles W. Chesnutt
- Critical essays on James Weldon Johnson
- Critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston
- Crossing color : transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction, and drama
- Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
- Dangerous desire : sexual freedom and sexual violence since the sixties
- Dangerous freedom : fusion and fragmentation in Toni Morrison's novels
- Deep sightings and rescue missions : fiction, essays, and conversations
- Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature
- Designs of Blackness : mappings in the literature and culture of Afro-America
- Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech
- Double-consciousness/double bind : theoretical issues in twentieth-century Black literature
- Down home and uptown : the representation of Black speech in American fiction
- Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture
- Ed Bullins : a literary biography
- Enter the new Negroes : images of race in American culture
- Every tub must sit on its own bottom : the philosophy and politics of Zora Neale Hurston
- Faulkner : the return of the repressed
- Faulkner's "Negro" : art and the southern context
- Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights
- Fiction and folklore : the novels of Toni Morrison
- Fictions of labor : William Faulkner and the South's long revolution
- Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self
- Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics
- From DuBois to Van Vechten : the early new Negro literature, 1903-1926
- From behind the veil : a study of Afro-American narrative
- From mammies to militants : domestics in Black American literature
- From the auroral darkness : the life and poetry of Robert Hayden
- From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature
- Fugitive vision : slave image and Black identity in antebellum narrative
- Ghosts of the African diaspora : re-visioning history, memory, and identity
- Gloria Naylor : a critical companion
- Gloria Naylor : strategy and technique, magic and myth
- Go down, Moses : the miscegenation of time
- Gothic America : narrative, history, and nation
- Growing up ethnic : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction
- Gwendolyn Brooks : poetry & the heroic voice
- Heart of a woman, mind of a writer, and soul of a poet : a critical analysis of the writings of Maya Angelou
- Heroism and the black intellectual : Ralph Ellison, politics, and Afro-American intellectual life
- How to read African American literature : post-Civil Rights fiction and the task of interpretation
- Howling for justice : new perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
- Huckleberry Finn as idol and target : the functions of criticism in our time
- Hunger overcome? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature
- Imagining blackness in Germany and Austria
- Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature
- Imagining the African American West
- In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction
- In the light of likeness--transformed : the literary art of Leon Forrest
- Integral music : languages of African American innovation
- Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000
- Invisible darkness : Jean Toomer & Nella Larsen
- James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays
- James Weldon Johnson
- John Edgar Wideman : a study of the short fiction
- John Edgar Wideman : reclaiming the African personality
- Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture
- Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the Black community
- Kinds of blue : the jazz aesthetic in African American narrative
- Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences : Afro-Amerikaner und die deutsche Amerika-Literatur, 1815-1914
- Langston Hughes
- Langston Hughes & the blues
- Langston Hughes : a study of the short fiction
- Langston Hughes : an introduction to the poetry
- Langston Hughes : the contemporary reviews
- Langston Hughes and American lynching culture
- Langston Hughes, folk dramatist in the protest tradition, 1921-1943
- Left of the color line : race, radicalism, and twentieth-century literature of the United States
- Lillian Hellman and August Wilson : dramatizing a new American identity
- Literary Pan-Africanism : history, contexts, and criticism
- Literary ambition and the African American novel
- Literary influence and African-American writers : collected essays
- Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930
- Mammies no more : the changing image of Black women on stage and screen
- Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity
- Masks : blackness, race, and the imagination
- Master plots : race and the founding of an American literature, 1787-1845
- May all your fences have gates : essays on the drama of August Wilson
- Modernism and the Harlem renaissance
- Mrs. Nelson's Class
- Mulattoes and race mixture : American attitudes and images, 1865-1918
- Multicultural detective fiction : murder from the "other" side
- Multiculturalism : roots and realities
- Mythic Black fiction : the transformation of history
- Nationalism and the color line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
- Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars : a new Pandora's box
- Native son : the emergence of a new Black hero
- Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled
- Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature
- New essays on Native son
- New essays on Uncle Tom's cabin
- Nikki Giovanni
- Nikki Giovanni : sell-out or individual?
- Not just race, not just gender : Black feminist readings
- Outsider citizens : the remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
- Passing and the fictions of identity
- Passing and the rise of the African American novel
- Passing the three gates : interviews with Charles Johnson
- Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination
- Plays and pageants from the life of the Negro
- Politics in the African-American novel : James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison
- Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
- Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays
- Prefiguring postblackness : cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s
- Prison literature in America : the victim as criminal and artist
- Private lives, proper relations : regulating black intimacy
- Psychoanalysis and Black novels : desire and the protocols of race
- Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850
- Queer pollen : white seduction, black male homosexuality, and the cinematic
- Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity
- Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature
- Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930
- Race-ing representation : voice, history, and sexuality
- Racial geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American theatre
- Radical revisions : rereading 1930s culture
- Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative
- Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales
- Reading Erna Brodber : uniting the Black diaspora through folk culture and religion
- Reading abolition : the critical reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass
- Reading black, reading feminist : a critical anthology
- Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction
- Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division
- Rethinking the slave narrative : slave marriage and the narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft
- Richard Wright
- Richard Wright : [critical insights]
- Richard Wright : a collection of critical essays
- Richard Wright and racial discourse
- Richard Wright's art of tragedy
- Ride out the wilderness : geography and identity in Afro-American literature
- Romancing the shadow : Poe and race
- SOS - Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader
- Satire or evasion? : Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn
- Savoring the salt : the legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
- Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean drama
- Shadow and act
- Shadow and substance : Afro-American experience in contemporary children's fiction
- Signs and cities : Black literary postmodernism
- Slavery & race in American popular culture
- Slavery in American children's literature, 1790-2010
- Smooth operating and other social acts
- So black and blue : Ralph Ellison and the occasion of criticism
- Social rituals and the verbal art of Zora Neale
- Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction : living in paradox
- Split-gut song : Jean Toomer and the poetics of modernity
- Strangers in the land : Blacks, Jews, post-Holocaust America
- Street players : black pulp fiction and the making of a literary underground
- Struggles over the word : race and religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright
- Student companion to Richard Wright
- Sweet home : invisible cities in the Afro-American novel
- Taboo subjects : race, sex, and psychoanalysis
- Telling narratives : secrets in African American literature
- Telling our stories : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies
- The Addison Gayle Jr. reader
- The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage
- The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
- The Black Columbiad : defining moments in African American literature and culture
- The Black nation novel : imagining homeplaces in early African American literature
- The Black romantic revolution : abolitionist poets at the end of slavery
- The Bounds of race : perspectives on hegemony and resistance
- The Cambridge companion to August Wilson
- The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
- The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance
- The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America
- The Harlem Renaissance and the intertextuality of the arts of passing
- The Harlem renaissance in black and white
- The Harlem renaissance re-examined
- The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
- The Jim dilemma : reading race in Huckleberry Finn
- The Negro in American culture
- The art and imagination of Langston Hughes
- The assertive woman in Zora Neale Hurston's fiction, folklore, and drama
- The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art
- The character of the word : the texts of Zora Neale Hurston
- The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
- The collected essays of Ralph Ellison
- The color of sex : whiteness, heterosexuality, and the fictions of white supremacy
- The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches
- The critical reception of James Baldwin in France
- The critical response to Gloria Naylor
- The critical response to Ralph Ellison
- The death-bound-subject : Richard Wright's archaeology of death
- The development of black theater in America : from shadows to selves
- The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature
- The drama of Nommo
- The dramatic vision of August Wilson
- The evidence of things not said : James Baldwin and the promise of American democracy
- The fiction of Gloria Naylor : houses and spaces of resistance
- The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
- The freedom to remember : narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction
- The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession
- The grateful slave : the emergence of race in eighteenth-century British and American culture
- The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction
- The ideologies of African American literature : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black nationalist revolt : a sociology of literature perspective
- The myth of Aunt Jemima : representations of race and region
- The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
- The novels of the Harlem renaissance : twelve black writers, 1923-1933
- The passing figure : racial confusion in modern American literature
- The past as present in the drama of August Wilson
- The politics of color in the fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
- The power of the porch : the storyteller's craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
- The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War
- The signifying monkey : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism
- The slave's rebellion : literature, history, orature
- The wanderer in African American literature
- The wayward preacher in the literature of African American women
- Their place on the stage : Black women playwrights in America
- Theorizing black theatre : art versus protest in critical writings, 1898-1965
- To hell and back : race and betrayal in the southern novel
- To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison
- Toni Morrison : a critical companion
- Toni Morrison : critical and theoretical approaches
- Toni Morrison and the Bible : contested intertextualities
- Toni Morrison's developing class consciousness
- Toni Morrison's fiction
- Toward wholeness in Paule Marshall's fiction
- Trauma and race : a Lacanian study of African American racial identity
- Truth stranger than fiction : race, realism, and the U.S. literary marketplace
- Turning the wheel : essays on Buddhism and writing
- Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s
- Uncle Tom's cabin and American culture
- Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911
- Understanding August Wilson
- Understanding Charles Johnson
- Unflinching gaze : Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned
- Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
- Voices from the quarters : the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
- Was Huck Black? : Mark Twain and African-American voices
- Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective
- We wear the mask : African Americans write American literature, 1760-1870
- What else but love? : the ordeal of race in Faulkner and Morrison
- White supremacy in children's literature : characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
- Whitman, slavery, and the emergence of Leaves of grass
- William Faulkner, the Yoknapatawpha world and black being
- Witness to the journey : James Baldwin's later fiction
- Women of the Harlem renaissance
- Word, image, and the New Negro : representation and identity in the Harlem Renaissance
- Writing blackness : John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation
- Zora Neale Hurston : critical perspectives past and present
- Zora Neale Hurston and American literary culture
- Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life
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