Africana Studies

Literature and Poetry

Morejon: Looking Within/Mirar adentroLooking Within/Mirar adentro: Selected Poems, 1954–2000

Bilingual Edition
Nancy Morejón  •  Edited and with an Introduction by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cuban poet.

Prescott: Without Hatreds or FearsWithout Hatreds or Fears: Jorge Artel and the Struggle for Black Literary Expression in Colombia

Lawrence E. Prescott

A study of Colombia’s premier poet, Jorge Artel.

Prescott: Winds Can Wake Up the Dead“Winds Can Wake Up the Dead”: An Eric Walrond Reader

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.

Boyd: Discarded LegacyDiscarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–191

Melba Joyce Boyd

Study of Frances Harper—nineteenth century writer, abolitionist, and feminist.

Daniels: Letters to AmericaLetters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race

Edited by Jim Daniels

A collection of poems that explore America’s history of racial intolerance.

Greenlee: The Spook Who Sat by the DoorThe Spook Who Sat by the Door

Sam Greenlee

An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.