A unique and vital guide that summarizes, explains and evaluates the greatest works of African-American literature -- including articles on writings from James

Masterpieces of African Literature is a compendium of critical reviews of about 100 selected major works in Prose, Drama, and Poetry, written between 1914 and 2

Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Whea

More recent African-American literature has also been noteworthy for its largely affirmative vision of urban life. Amiri Baraka's 1981 essay "Black Literature a

Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics a