Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to e

One of the most critically acclaimed yet least recognized contemporary writers, African American author John Edgar Wideman creates work often described as diffi

Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced “a sort of pure homesickness” while creating the Harlem-set detective novels

How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present

New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the crea