Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon.

A major figure in African American studies, Gates (Harvard)--whose earlier works include Signifying Monkey (CH, Jun'89, 26-5523) and Thirteen Ways of Looking at

Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with th

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-Ameri