Recently added articles from African American Review:
Forgotten Manuscripts: William Jay Greenly's Antebellum Temperance Drama.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The October 1858 Repository of Religion and Literature proudly announced that Another book is out, and that by a colored man--by an old friend, a useful and energetic man" (115). That book, excerpted below and authored by William Jay Greenly of New Albany, Indiana, bore the long tide The ...
Imagining Other Worlds: Race, Gender, and the "Power Line" in Edward P. Jones's "The Known World".(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Moses was the first slave Henry Townsend had bought: $325 and a handshake from William Robbins, a white man. It took Moses more than two weeks to come to understand that someone wasn't fiddling with him and that indeed a black man, two shades darker than himself, owned him and any shadow he ...
An interview with Edward P. Jones.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Edward P. Jones is a writer of the kind of fiction one might have thought was going out of style: readable, absorbing, and exquisitely literary. After a startling publishing debut with Lost in the City, stories drawn from his native Washington, D. C., Jones went on to win the Pulitzer Prize ...
The Specter of Conspiracy in Martin Delany's "Blake".(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... With his serialized novel Blake (1859-62), Martin Robison Delany carried the message of militant revolution into a discourse dominated by the often more temperate and sentimental approaches favored by his contemporaries Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe. However, Blake's popular ...
Forgotten Manuscripts: "Blues for Emmett Till": The Earliest Extant Song About the Murder of Emmett Till.(includes lyrics)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The brutal murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi on August 28, 1955 and the heinous acquittal of his killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, on September 24 ignited a quick and enduring literary response from the African American, as well as white, community. Langston Hughes wrote ...