american literature

Collection of interviews with sixteen African-American writers, including novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights, discussing race, gender, and their work.

Traces the influences of traditional oral forms such as folktales, riddles, idiom, jazz rhythms, spirituals, and blues on the development of African American literature.

A study of the lives and works of women writers who practiced their art during the Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, focusing on African-American authors Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Includes more than 120 selections from the political writings, literature, and art of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, focusing on the youthfulness and exuberance of the period that symbolized the shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African-Americans.

Analyses, children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and explores the identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African-American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit the history and culture to the next generation.

Contains over fifty selections of fiction, drama, essays, journalism, poetry, and speeches written by Puerto Rican authors, reflecting the range of political, racial, and cultural dynamics of the Puerto Rican people.