African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American li