Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s (Black Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226035379 ISBN 13: 9780226035376

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice.

"This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."—Voice Literary Supplement

About this title

About the Author:

Houston A. Baker is Distinguished University Professor and a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He has been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. He has served as president of the Modern Language Association and as editor of the journal American Literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0226035379
• ISBN 13: 9780226035376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Baker Jr. Houston A., Redmond Patricia