African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that u

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.

This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representatio

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.