Reference Publications
- African American Review
- Quarterly journal unites writers and scholars to share views about African American culture and literature.
Most Recent Articles from African American Review 
"You have no business to whip me": the freedom suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delaney
As recounted in Lucy Delaney's c.1891 slave narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, in 1829, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robert Wash, began to...
3/22/07 by Eric Gardner · More from publicationHow the socialism of W. E. B. Du Bois still matters: black socialism in The Quest of the Silver Fleeceand beyond
One prominent trend in African American and African diaspora studies involves the search for a more thoroughly egalitarian black politics, especially...
3/22/07 by Mark Van Wienen Julie Kraft · More from publicationToward feminine mythopoetic visions: the poetry of Gayl Jones
"The center of Song for Anninho is a love story and I also wanted to move beyond the 'blues relationships' of most of my earlier published...
3/22/07 by Casey Clabough · More from publicationFollowing her act: sequence and desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing
Near the end of The Healing (1998), Gayl Jones's protagonist and narrator, Harlan Eagleton, undergoes an examination that compresses one of the...
3/22/07 by David LaCroix · More from publicationLiterary free jazz? Mumbo Jumbo and Paradise: language and meaning
Ishmael Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo (1972) and Toni Morrison's Paradise (1998) stand as two crucial signposts identifying the trajectory of an African...
3/22/07 by Keren Omry · More from publication"Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?": re-mapping interracial anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Although Octavia Butler's 1979 novel about slavery and time-travel, Kindred, occupies a privileged position within the African American literary...
3/22/07 by Guy Mark Foster · More from publication