The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, ...
This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial ...
Nikki Giovanni was a celebrated poet, activist, and leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Her powerful works explored race, gender, and social justice.
Princeton published the first English translation of the essay paired with another entitled “Notes on the Novel.” Three essays were later added to make an expanded edition, published in 1968, under ...
In many ways, for me, the political and sociolinguistic risks of putting ASL on the walls of an art museum feel tempered by the power of the ekphrastic conceit.
“America today,” Wolfe wrote, “in a headlong rush of her own, may or may not truly need a literature worthy of her vastness. But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this ...