African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural ...
The 223-page book takes a brief ... and who contributed to the shaping of American literature with novels and plays and poems that bequeathed us a voice to sing of ourselves.
Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how ...