African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature—and to change th

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the cl

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American li

A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.