Surveys a diverse array of Black performance and visual texts that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century
Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers alike, Schultz’s book outlines Rankine’s poetic career in all its major facets, including an analysis of Rankine’s seminal book, Citizen.
New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.
Lindsey Stewart wades into unease about how Black southern joy is portrayed by analyzing work by Zora Neale Hurston. Stewart theorizes the politics of joy, a refusal of the neo-abolitionism that would reduce southern Black life to tragedy or social death.
Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatleyto Octavia Butler provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression.
This book uses ecofeminist theory to analyze seven novels by author and activist Alice Walker, examining Walker’s approach to critical race studies and critical animal studies, as well as her responsibility as a moral guide.
Contributions by John Bracey, Iain Haley Pollock, Gregory Pardlo, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Fred Joiner, Frank X. Walker, F. Douglas Brown, E. Ethelbert Miller, Erica Hunt, Duriel E. Harris, Douglas Manuel, Douglas Kearney, Dante Micheaux, Jericho Brown, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Janice N. Harrington, Hayes Davis, Clemonce Heard, DaMaris B. Hill, Cynthia Manick, Curtis L. Crisler, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Cornelius Eady, CM Burroughs, John Murillo, Tara Betts, t'ai freedom ford, Shayla Lawson, Sherese Francis, Shauna M. Morgan, Samantha Thornhill, Safiya Sinclair, Safia Elhillo, Remica Bingham-Risher, Randall Horton, Raina J. León, Phillip B. Williams, Donika Kelly, Dominique Christina, Dexter L. Booth, Destiny O. Birdsong, Derrick Weston Brown, DéLana R. A. Dameron, David Mills, darlene anita scott, Metta Sáma, Sharan Strange, Candice Wiley, Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ana-Maurine Lara, Amber Flora Thomas, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Amanda Johnston, Ama Codjoe, Alan W. King, Abdul Ali, Kwame Dawes, Yalie Kamara, Xandria Phillips, Tyehimba Jess, Tracy K. Smith, Tony Medina, Toi Derricotte, Tiana Clark, Thylias Moss, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Taylor Johnson, Cedric Tillman, Camille T. Dungy, Bettina Judd, avery r. young, Chanda Feldman, Joshua B. Bennett, JP Howard, Julian Randall, Justin Phillip Reed, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Keith S. Wilson, Kevin Simmonds, Khadijah Queen, Korey Williams, Krista Franklin, L. Lamar Wilson, Lauren Russell, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Lynne Procope, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Major Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Matthew Shenoda, Mahtem Shiferraw, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Meta DuEwa Jones, Michael Collins, Nabila Lovelace, Nandi Comer, Natasha Marin, Natasha Oladokun, Nate Marshall, Nagueyalti Warren, Nicole Sealey, Nkosi Nkululeko, Opal Moore, Evie Shockley, Ladan Osman, Rickey Laurentiis, Jasmine Richards, Terrance Hayes, francine j. harris, Patricia Spears Jones, Patricia Smith, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Ross Gay, Arisa White, Saretta Morgan, Indigo Moor, Marcus Wicker, Danez Smith, Aricka Foreman, Mary Alice Daniel, Clint Smith, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Reginald Dwayne Dwayne Betts, Mitchel L.H. Douglas, Charif Shanahan, Anastacia Renée, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Valencia Robin
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning African American poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones.
The Blackademic Life offers a fascinating exploration of fiction by black writers on campuses or in scholarly environments. Lavelle Porter demonstrates how black writers have used academic stories to celebrate black intelligence and advocate for black higher education.
