African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary ...

The Year's Work in English Studies, This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture.

Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...

Amid state book bans, a group of College of Charleston students are working to incorporate African American literature into ...

Who decides what qualifies as a “masterpiece of African American literature”? The question is central to an audacious scheme that unfolds in Erasure, a 2001 novel by Percival Everett about a ...

It's an invitation into the legacy of classic African American literature." Bilal read Gaines' classics in high school and college, but for her, his impact reaches far beyond his novels.

He is now working on his next project, tentatively titled Creating Our Own Internal Weather Through Literature, which examines how Americans construct competing notions of home, through the fiction of ...