From Little Africa to the jazz cafes where Josephine Baker performed, here’s where to immerse yourself in the art, food, and ...

They felt excluded by "millennial moral censorship" — but is their work pushing boundaries, or just pushing buttons?

THE short story is not the poor country cousin of the novel. Many excellent short story writers have been denigrated for not writing that one great novel that would put them on the front list of the ...

FAU American literature professor Taylor Hagood takes a look at the Florida described by writers like Theodore Pratt and the modern, asphalt-laden landscape.

The course gives an overview of American literature in the nineteenth century with major emphasis on the American Renaissance, realism, naturalism, and the local color movement. The syllabus consists ...

The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. In addition to a cash ...

Keywords American short story, film adaptation, literature, human experience, relatable characters, emotional depth, accessibility, modern audiences, communal experience ...

Latin American literature in the 1960s was inextricable from its politics. After lawyer-turned-revolutionary Fidel Castro defeated Cuba’s military dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, power ...

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” Much ...

Beyond the department, UB’s superb Poetry Collection makes possible original research on American manuscripts and periodicals, and the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s Grosvenor collection, an ...

4: “The River Why” by David James Duncan (1983) Of the five pieces I've picked, this Oregon-based story is the only full-length novel. It's a coming-of-age tale about a fishing savant named ...

Illuminating why African American literature and ethnocultural genres remain paramount. The parallels between our present moment and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance are undeniable.