246 Books in the LITERARY CRITICISM / African American & Black Category

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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC On Morrison The Black Box (paperback): Writing the Race Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Discourse in Black: Voices of the Self, Let’s Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers Salvage: Readings from the Wreck Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts Encounter on the Seine: Essays The Harlem Ghetto: Essays Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War The Black Box: Writing the Race The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny Minor Notes, Volume 1 In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays Black Women Writers at Work Paul Laurence Dunbar Reading Black Books Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Black Fire This Time Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature Nothing Personal (s)Kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara’s Practices of Liberation Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine “Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Conversations with John A. Williams Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Who Do with Words (2.0) Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror The Origin of Others Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Making Roots: A Nation Captivated Beyond the Rope Reading Contemporary African American Literature I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s The Cambridge History of African American Literature Mess and Mess and These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X Selected Letters of Langston Hughes F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature A Companion to African American Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman Notes of a Native Son Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory And Practice And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen The Works Of Alain Locke The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader Conversations with Ralph Ellison By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions) The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker Literary Sisters: Dorothy West And Her Circle, A Biography Of The Harlem Renaissance Integrating African American Literature in the Library and Classroom Representing the Race The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series) Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Conversations With Octavia Butler I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin God’s Bits of Wood Slave Cinema: The Crisis of the African-American in Film Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Classics) Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Richard Wright: The Life and Times Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women Writers of Color) Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry) Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations) Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual George S. Schuyler: Portrait Of A Black Conservative Deans and Truants Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present The Black Interior: Essays Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters Black Betty A Little Yellow Dog Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists) My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature The Harris Family: A Novel White Butterfly Devil In a Blue Dress (1st in the Easy Rawlins Mysteries) Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life Out There Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941) The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967) Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States African American Writers: Portraits and Visions The Fisher King: A Novel Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America Blind Ambitions: A Novel For the Love of Money : A Novel The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature A Region Not Home: Reflections From Exile Fields Watered with Blood Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21) African American Literary Theory: A Reader The Rejected American The Harris Men The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine remembered rapture: the writer at work Renaissance in Harlem Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine Prose: Essays And Personal Letters I Call Myself An Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, And Conversations Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P. Crisis Magazine Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor Affirmative Acts Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings The Future of the Race On A Mission: Selected Poems And A History Of The Last Poets Circles of Sisterhood: A Book Discussion Group Guide for Women of Color The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Eulogies “Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race And American Culture) The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition The Richer, The Poorer The Souls of Black Folk: Includes “The Talented Tenth” and ”The Souls of White Folk” The Hero And the Blues Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play The Changing Same": Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory Shadow And Act Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Black Betty (Mask Noir) Songs Of Enchantment Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex Conversations with Richard Wright (Literary Conversations) Selected Poems The Big Sea: An Autobiography Playing In The Dark: Whiteness And The Literary Imagination The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar A Woman’s Mourning Song How I Wrote Jubilee: And Other Essays on Life and Literature Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About: The Complete Novels Of Charles Wright Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha: A Critical Collection Howard Street Black Southern Voices: An Anthology Nobody Knows My Name Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New Magic City The Stories of John Edgar Wideman Omeros Don’t Cry, Scream The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga The Panther & the Lash Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative nappy edges Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South My Soul’s High Song The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life Fever (Contemporary American Fiction) Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (including Hagar’s Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood) Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self The Spook Who Sat by the Door Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 New Essays on Invisible Man The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America Good Woman: Poems And A Memoir 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum) Cruelty/Killing Floor (Classic Reprint Series) Thomas and Beulah The Black Poets Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation Once Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays Black Feeling Black Talk Five Plays by Langston Hughes Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines