Masterplots II

This reference work brings together critical essays on African American literature. It discusses individual books by leading novelists, playwrights, memoirists, historians and critics, and it also surveys the careers of major poets, short story writers, essayists and orators.

The coverage stretches from colonial America to the twenty-first century. Students, librarians and teachers can use it to explore the canon of Black American writing across its full history.