This study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred ye

This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of n

This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers.

Many of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high sch