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| Introduction | |
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| African American Literature from Its Origins to the Twentieth Century | |
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| Sounds of a tradition: the souls of Black folk | |
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| Early print literature of Africans in America | |
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| The emergence of an African American literary canon, 1760-1820 | |
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| Dividing a nation, uniting a people: African American literature and the Abolitionist Movement | |
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| African American literature and the slave narrative genre | |
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| Writing freedom: race, religion, and revolution, 1820-1840 | |
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| 'We wish to plead our own cause': independent Antebellum African American literature, 1840-1865 | |
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| Racial ideologies in theory and practice: political and cultural nationalism, 1865-1910 | |
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| The 'fictions' of race | |
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| 'We wear the mask': the making of a poet | |
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| Toward a modernist poetics | |
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| African American Literature Since the Twentieth Century | |
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| Foundations of African American modernism, 1910-1950 | |
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| The New Negro Movement and the politics of art | |
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| African American literature and the Great Depression | |
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| Weaving jagged words: the Black Left, 1930s-1940s | |
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| Writing the American story, 1945-1952 | |
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| Geographies of the modern: writing beyond borders and boundaries | |
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| African American literature by writers of Caribbean descent | |
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| Reform and revolution, 1965-1976: the Black aesthetic at work | |
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| History as fact and fiction | |
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| Redefining the art of poetry | |
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| Cultural resistance and avant-garde aesthetics: African American poetry from 1970 to the present | |
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| New frontiers, cross-currents and convergencies: emerging cultural paradigms | |
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| African American Literature as Academic and Cultural Capital | |
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| Children's and young adult literatures | |
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| From writer to reader: Black popular fiction | |
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| Cultural capital and the presence of Africa: Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and the power of Black theatre | |
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| African American literature: foundational scholarship, criticism and theory | |
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| African American literatures and new world cultures | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Suggested further reading | |