A collection of fiction, poetry, and essays that examines African and African-American art and literature during the early twentieth century and offers social and political analyses.

Pronde's the critical framework to examine several major works including, Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Invisible man by Ralph Ellison, and Mumbo jumbo by Ishmael Reed.

Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination.

When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.

This is the story of Captain Ahab's fanatical quest to get revenge on the whale which was responsible for the loss of his leg.

Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature most writers promote: they propose a new world view, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the “nature” they ...