african americans in literature

A collection of urban articles, essays, interviews, and poems.

Chronicles the life of novelist Donald Goines, focusing on how his experiences as a heroin addict, career criminal, truck driver, and pimp influenced his legendary writing style.

Offers an overview of significant developments and contributions in African-American poetry, from the eighteenth century, through the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movements of the 1960s, to the present day.

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.

Translation of: Les Poetes Negres des Etats-Unis. A study of the major black poets of the United States from early slavery times to Langston Hughes.

Surveys the works of major African-American writers of the twentieth century.

Explains how to use critical theory to analyze the writing of Toni Morrison.

Presents alphabetized biographical and critical profiles of over sixty African-American dramatists from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright.

Presents a narrative history and development of African-American children's literature from its origin to the present.