From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with

The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensi

As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing