LaBrant, Lou, "Untapped Resources of Negro Students": [1] 15-17

LaCroix, David, "Following Her Act: Sequence and Desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing": [41] 115-126

La Crosse, Ken, and Gerald Haslam, "An Inquiry Model for Black Oral Literature": [4] 127-132

Lamothe, Daphne, "Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots and Routes": [39] 155-169

Lane, James B., "Underground to Manhood: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man ": [7] 64-72

Lane, Pinkie Gordon, "Reflections on Dumas's 'Love Song' ": [22] 270-274

Lane, R. D., " 'Keepin' It Real': Walter Dean Myers and the Promise of African-American Children's Literature": [32] 125-138

Lane, Suzanne, "Black Thunder's Call for a Conjure Response to American Negro Slavery": [37] 583-598

Larsen, R. B. V., "The Four Voices of Richard Wright's Native Son ": [6] 105-109

Larson, Charles R., "The Deification of Booker T. Washington": [4] 125-126

Lattin, Vernon E., "Ann Petry and the American Dream": [12] 69-72

Laudun, John, "Reading Hurston Writing": [38] 45-60

Lavery, Matthew A., "The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Mackey's Song of the Andoumboulou": [38] 683-694

Lawry, J. L., "Some Queries about Negro American Literature": [1] 1-2

Lease, Joseph, " 'progressive lit.': Amiri Baraka, Bruce Andrews, and the Politics of the Lyric 'I' ": [37] 389-398

Lee, A. Robert, "Sight and Mask: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man": [4] 22-33
--, "The Fiction of Paul Laurence Dunbar": [8] 166-172
--, "Violence Real and Imagined: The World of Chester Himes's Novels": [10] 13-22

Lee, Ben, "LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka and the Limits of Open Form": [37] 371-387

Lee, Dorothy H., "Song of Solomon: To Ride the Air": [16] 64-70

Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, "Knucklebones and Knocking-bones: The Accidental Trickster in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man": [40] 461-473

Lee, Kun Jong, "Ellison's Racial Variations on American Themes": [30] 421-440

Lee, Maurice, "Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence, Black Spirit, and The Quest of the Silver Fleece": [33] 389-400

Lee, Rachel, "Missing Peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved ": [28] 571-583

Lekatsas, Barbara, "Encounters: The Film Odyssey of Camille Billops": [25] 395-408

Leonard, Neil, "The Jazzman's Verbal Usage": [20] 151-160

Lester, Neal A., "shange's Men: for colored girls Revisited, and Movement Beyond": [26] 319-328

Leuchtenmüller, Thomas, "Paul Laurence Dunbar's Overlooked Play": [42] 319-326

Levecq, Christine, "Blues Poetics and Blues Politics in Walter Mosley's RL's Dream": [38] 239-256

Leveen, Lois, "Dwelling in the House of Oppression: The Spatial, Racial, and Textual Dynamics of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig": [35] 561-580

Leverette, Tru, "Traveling Identities: Mixed Race Quests and Fran Ross's Oreo": [40] 79-91

Levin, David, "American Fiction as Historical Evidence: Reflections on Uncle Tom's Cabin": [5] 132-136, 154

Levine, Robert S., "Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome": [34] 217-231

Lewis, Barbara Brewster, "Women Crossing Boundaries: A Field Report on the Paris Conference 'African Americans and Europe' ": [26] 515-519

Lewis, Leslie W., "Biracial Promise and the New South in Minnie's Sacrifice": [40] 755-767

Lewis, Nghana tamu, "In a Different Chord: Interpreting the Relations Among Black Female Sexuality, Agency, and the Blues": [37] 599-609
--, "The Rhetoric of Mobility, the Politics of Consciousness: Julia Mood Peterkin and the Case of a Black White Writer": [38] 589-608

Lewis, Richard O., "A Literary-Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Robert Hayden's 'Market' ": [9] 21-24

Li, Xilao, " 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings!': Dunbar in China": [42] 387-393

Lieber, Todd M., and Maurice J. O'Sullivan, " 'Native Sons?': Black Students on Black Literature": [5] 3-7

Lieberfeld, Daniel, "Million-Dollar Juke Joint: Commodifying Blues Culture": [29] 217-221

Liggins, Saundra, "The Urban Gothic Vision of Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999)": [40] 359-369

Lindfors, Bernth, "Beating the White Man at His Own Game: Nigerian Reactions to the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature": [22] 475-488
--, " 'Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice': New Biographical Information on Ira Aldridge": [28] 457-472
--, " 'Mislike Me Not for My Complexion . . .': Ira Aldridge in Whiteface": [33] 347-354

Lindroth, James, "Images of Subversion: Ishmael Reed and the Hoodoo Trickster": [30] 185-196

Little, Jonathan, "Nella Larsen's Passing: Irony and the Critics": [26] 173-182
--, "From the Comic Book to the Comic: Charles Johnson's Variations on Creative Expression": [30] 579-601

Loeb, Jeff, "MIA: African American Autobiography of the Vietnam War": [31] 105-123

Lorensen, Jutta, "Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series": [40] 571-586

Lott, Tommy L., "A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema": [25] 221-236

Lounsberry, Barbara, and Grace Ann Hovet, "Principles of Perception in Toni Morrison's Sula": [13] 126-129

Love, Glen A., "Warren Miller: White Novelist in a Black World": [9] 3, 11-16

Lovell, John, "Reflections on the Origins of the Negro Spiritual": [3] 91-97

Lowney, John, "Haiti and Black Transnationalism: Remapping the Migrant Geography of Home to Harlem": [34] 413-429

Lubiano, Wahneema, "But Compared to What? Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse": [25] 253-282

Lucasi, Stephen, "William Wells Brown's Narrative & Traveling Subjectivity": [41] 521-539

Ludwig, Sämi, "Ishmael Reed's Inductive Narratology of Detection": [32] 435-444

Lupton, Mary Jane, "Clothes and Closure in Three Novels by Black Women": [20] 409-421
--, "Singing the Black Mother: Maya Angelou and Autobiographical Continuity": [24] 257-276

Lynch, Michael, "Haunted by Innocence: The Debate with Dostoevsky in Wright's 'Other Novel,' The Outsider": [30] 255-266

Lyne, William, "No Accident: From Black Power to Black Box Office": [34] 39-59