Invisible criticism Ralph Ellison and the American canon

Toni Morrison paradise, love, a mercy

Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance a portrait in black and white

Hip figures a literary history of the Democratic Party

Novel bondage slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America

What was African American literature?

Icons of African American literature the Black literary world

Super black American pop culture and black superheroes

Neo-segregation narratives Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature

Black on earth African American ecoliterary traditions

African and African American images in Newbery Award winning titles progress in portrayals

Chaotic justice rethinking African American literary history

Laughing fit to kill black humor in the fictions of slavery

Inventing the new Negro narrative, culture, and ethnography

Deans and truants race and realism in African American literature

Shadowing Ralph Ellison

The past as present in the drama of August Wilson

Pauline E. Hopkins a literary biography

Charles Johnson's novels writing the American palimpsest

Dangerous desire sexual freedom and sexual violence since the sixties

Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American tradition in poetry

What's a Black critic to do? interviews, profiles, and reviews of Black writers

Liberation memories the rhetoric and poetics of John Oliver Killens

South of tradition essays on African American literature

Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race

Witness to the journey James Baldwin's later fiction

Scarring the Black body race and representation in African American literature

Gloria Naylor a critical companion

Looking for Harlem urban aesthetics in African American literature

Faulkner on the color line the later novels

Student companion to Richard Wright

May all your fences have gates essays on the drama of August Wilson

Violence in the Black imagination essays and documents

The signifying monkey a theory of Afro-American literary criticism

Beyond the Chinese connection contemporary Afro-Asian cultural production

Living with lynching African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930

All stories are true history, myth, and trauma in the work of John Edgar Wideman

Freud upside down African American literature and psychoanalytic culture

The fiction of Gloria Naylor houses and spaces of resistance

Unexpected places relocating nineteenth-century African American literature

Red, Black, and Jew new frontiers in Hebrew literature

Cotton's queer relations same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968

Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing

Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture

Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865

Chesnutt and realism a study of the novels

Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes

Strangers in the land Blacks, Jews, post-Holocaust America

Democratic discourses the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature

Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life

Telling our stories continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies

The slave's rebellion literature, history, orature

At home in diaspora Black international writing

Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction

Growing up ethnic nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction

Brown gold milestones of African-American children's picture books, 1845-2002

The real negro the question of authenticity in twentieth-century African American literature

Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature

Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison

Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance

The fugitive's properties law and the poetics of possession

American racist the life and films of Thomas Dixon

Dialect and dichotomy literary representations of African American speech

Burnin' down the house home in African American literature

Race and time American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity

Emerging Afrikan survivals an Afrocentric critical theory

Signs and cities Black literary postmodernism

American Lazarus religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures

Race, citizenship, and law in American literature

Crossing color transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction, and drama

Amiri Baraka the politics and art of a Black intellectual

The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865

African American satire the sacredly profane novel

Imagining each other Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature

Women in chains the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction

Romanticism and slave narratives transatlantic testimonies

Technology and the logic of American racism a cultural history of the body as evidence

Facing Black and Jew literature as public space in twentieth-century America

Neo-slave narratives studies in the social logic of a literary form

The South in Black and white race, sex, and literature in the 1940s

Crossing borders through folklore African American women's fiction and art

Color & culture Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual

Psychoanalysis and Black novels desire and the protocols of race

Huckleberry Finn as idol and target the functions of criticism in our time

The myth of Aunt Jemima representations of race and region

The dialect of modernism race, language, and twentieth-century literature

Black women, writing, and identity migrations of the subject

Bordering on the body the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture

(Dis)forming the American canon African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular

The grasp that reaches beyond the grave the ancestral call in black women's texts

Word by word emancipation and the act of writing

Claiming Exodus a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903

The postwar African American novel protest and discontent, 1945-1950

The souls of mixed folk race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium

Keepin' it hushed the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric

Black writers, white publishers marketplace politics in twentieth-century African American literature

To be suddenly white literary realism and racial passing

"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)

A historical guide to Ralph Ellison

Unnatural selections eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars a new Pandora's box

From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction

White supremacy in children's literature characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900

Black Orpheus music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

Figures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self

The African American theatrical body reception, performance, and the stage

Sitting in darkness New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920

Passing the three gates interviews with Charles Johnson

Reclaiming home, remembering motherhood, rewriting history African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature in the twentieth century

James Baldwin America and beyond

Contemporary African American literature the living canon

Conversations with Walter Mosley

Representing segregation toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division

Finding a way home a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction

Charles Johnson the novelist as philosopher

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison comparative critical and theoretical essays

African-American performance and theater history a critical reader