This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological ent

Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts