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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Voices Within the Circle: A Historical Overview of African American Literary Criticism | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | |
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| The New Negro | |
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| The Negro in American Literature | |
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| The Gift of Laughter | |
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| The Negro-Art Hokum | |
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| The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain | |
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| Criteria of Negro Art | |
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| Our Literary Audience | |
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| Characteristics of Negro Expression | |
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| Humanistic/Ethical Criticism and the Protest Tradition | |
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| Blueprint for Negro Writing | |
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| American Negro Literature | |
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| What White Publishers Won't Print | |
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| New Poets | |
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| Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity | |
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| Everybody's Protest Novel | |
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| Integration and Race Literature | |
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| The Black Arts Movement | |
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| The Myth of a "Negro Literature" | |
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| Ethnic Impact in American Literature: Reflections on a Course | |
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| The Black Arts Movement | |
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| Towards a Black Aesthetic | |
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| Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic | |
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| Toward a Definition: Black Poetry of the Sixties | |
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| Tripping with Black Writing | |
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| Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the African-American Critic | |
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| Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext | |
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| I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authored Control in Four Slave Narratives | |
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| Generational Shifts and the Recent Criticism of Afro-American Literature | |
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| Literary Production: A Silence in Afro-American Critical Practice | |
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| The Race for Theory | |
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| Appropriate Gestures: Theory and Afro-American Literary Criticism | |
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| Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature | |
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| Gender, Theory, and African-American Feminist Criticism | |
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| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens | |
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| Toward a Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism | |
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| "The Darkened Eye Restored": Notes Toward a Literary History of Black Women | |
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| Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book | |
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| Gender and Afro-Americanist Literary Theory and Criticism | |
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| But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History | |
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| Some Implications for Related Reading | |
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| Acknowledgment of Copyrights | |
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| About the Critics | |
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| Index of Selected Names | |