intellectual life

An anthology of works by African-Americans professionally involved in literature and the arts.

A collection of thirty-four critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narratives to contemporary feminist authors, each including a selected bibliography.

An overview of the Harlem Renaissance that explores the people, events, and accomplishments that shaped the era and its impact on the African-American community.

Provides detailed biographies, critical extracts, and bibliographies on thirteen African-American prose writers of the early twentieth century.

Explores Zora Neale Hurston's, Their eyes were watching God, as a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives.

Collection of essays by the novelists and poet describing life in two cultures and her thoughts on writing.

Presents fourteen modern critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Contains ten essays in which the authors provide critical perspectives on the works of Asian American writers, and includes an introduction by critic Harold Bloom, a chronology, notes on the contributors, and a bibliography.

A collection of sixty critical statements by a variety of authors including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and others, in which they address questions regarding the aesthetics, function, politics, and responsibilities of African-American literature.