InhaltsangabeNotes on Contributors. Introduction. Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865. Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940. Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940-Present. Index.

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Associate Professor of English and African American studies at Boston University. He is the author of Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections, including The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009).

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