Explores the novels, short stories, and plays of three African American writers to demonstrate how they challenged classic portrayals of black men in earlier li

Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with

As the acclaimed author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) has been publishing stories and novels f

Presents a brief biography of August Wilson along with extracts of major critical essays, plot summaries, and an index of themes and ideas.

Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Jo