The oral tradition has always played an important role in African American literature, ranging fr...

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematic...

The essays in this volume take up the challenge of working out -- or reworking -- the problematic...

Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Bak...

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black ...

Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Bak...

Lucy can't hold the secret any longer. Twenty-six years ago, her sister did the unthinkable.Port...

Zeddi's cursed with bad luck. A housing shortage in the Bay Area's Tres Ojos has left Zeddi and h...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fi...

Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and th...

A groundbreaking collection of sixteen essays that examines the productive intersection of the fi...