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A survey of the history of African American literature, from slave narratives to the present, told in the voice of a grandfather speaking to his granddaughter.

Covers twelve African American writers since World War II, including Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison.

Sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature. This title outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.

The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars