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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 386
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Richard Wright.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 613
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Nikki Giovanni.
3) Amiri Baraka
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 383
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Amiri Baraka.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 123
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Langston Hughes.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 290
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of James Baldwin.
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Twayne's studies in short fiction volume no. 47
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Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of Langston Hughes. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.
7) Alice Walker
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 596
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Alice Walker.
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 395
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Twayne's studies in short fiction volume no. 70
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Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of John Edgar Wideman. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.
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W. Jason Miller investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Langston Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices as they resisted, accepted, and executed this brutal form of sadistic torture. In this work, Miller initiates an important dialogue between America's neglected history of lynching and some of the world's most significant poems. He begins with Hughes's teenage years during...
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"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,...
20) Ralph Ellison
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ralph Ellison.
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