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.

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

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

A groundbaking work of enduring influence. The Signifying Monkey illuminates the relationship between the African and African American vernacular traditions and