The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.

Given the rise of new interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to African American and Black Atlantic studies, The Oxford Handbook of the African America

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

Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemologica

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers—enslaved and free—allied themse