African American Writing: A Literary Approach

Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Research Professor of English Literature at Harvard University and Global Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the co-editor (with Greil Marcus) of A New Literary History of America and the author of Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture, Neither Black nor White yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature, and The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s.

List of Figures
Introduction
1 Olaudah Equiano, an Enlightenment Cosmopolitan in the Age of Slavery
2 The Philadelphian Novelist Frank Webb Anticipates the Future
3 The Goopher in Charles W. Chesnutt's Conjure Tales: Superstition, Ethnicity, and Modern Metamorphoses
4 Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America
5 African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars
6 W. E. B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany, 1936
7 Modernization as Adultery: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and American Culture of the 1930s and 1940s
8 Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference; or, Quadrupeds All?
9 The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois
10 Owls and Rats in the American Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy's Drama
11 LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Dutchman
12 Obligations to Negroes Who Would Be Kin if They Were Not Negro
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index