Reviews

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da Costa, Emilia Viotti, Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 (Edward L. Cox): [31] 138-140

Dace, Tish, ed., Langston Hughes: The Contemporary Reviews (Faith Berry): [34] 356-357

D'Aguiar, Fred, Dear Future (Heather Hathaway): [32] 506-508

Dance, Daryl Cumber, ed., Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (Mary Ellen Doyle): [37] 451-452

Daniel, Jack L., and Omari C. Daniel, We Fish: The Journey to Fatherhood (Robert L. Tener): [37] 472-474

Davis, Arthur P., and Saunders Redding, eds., Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present (Robert E. Fleming): [7] 35-36

Davis, Charles T., Black Is the Color of the Cosmos: Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture, 1942-1981 (R. Baxter Miller): [18] 178-181
--, and Michel Fabre, Richard Wright: A Primary Bibliography (John M. Reilly): [16] 123-124
--, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds., The Slave's Narrative (William L. Andrews): [20] 203-207

Davis, David Brion, In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery (Anthony B. Pinn): [37] 432-434
--, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (Lewis Fried): [38] 530-532

Davis, Frank Marshall, Black Moods: Collected Poems (James A. Miller): [37] 466-467

Davis, Mary Kemp, Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection (J. Lee Greene): [35] 668-669

Davis, Rose Parkman, Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide (Lynda Hill): [34] 540-541

Davis, Thadious M., Faulkner's "Negro": Art and the Southern Context (James Snead): [18] 131-132
--, Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled (Jacquelyn Y. McLendon): [30] 478-481

Davis, Ursula Broschke, Paris without Regret: James Baldwin, Kenny Clarke, Chester Himes and Donald Byrd (James C. Hall): [21] 349-351

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, ed., The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells (P. Gabrielle Foreman): [31] 363-365
--, ed., Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers (Douglas Field): [38] 341-343

Defaa, Chip, Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Darryl Cox): [33] 161-164

De Jongh, James, Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination (Linda Hamalian): [26] 687-689

DeLamotte, Eugenia C., Places of Silence, Journeys of Freedom: The Fiction of Paule Marshall (Dorothy Hamer Denniston): [34] 357-359

Delany, Samuel R., Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics (Sandra Y. Govan): [31] 164-168
--, Longer Views: Extended Essays (Robert Elliot Fox): [33] 173-174  
--, Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary (Robert Elliot Fox): [35] 491-492

Dent, Tom, Blue Lights and River Songs (Beth Brown): [16 ] 83

Derricotte, Toi, Natural Birth: Poems (Joe Weixlmann): [17] 180-182
--, Natural Birth (Pinkie Gordon Lane): [35] 686-687

De Santis, Christopher C., ed., Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 (R. Baxter Miller): [38] 723-727

Dessens, Nathalie, Myths of Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies (KaaVonia Hinton): [39] 249-251

DeVeaux, Scott, The Birth of BeBop: A Social and Musical History (Douglas Henry Daniels): [34] 712-713
--, and William Howland Kenney, eds., The Music of James Scott (Gayle Murchison): [29] 502-505

de Weever, Jacqueline, Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction (Martha J. Cutter): [28] 667-669

Diawara, Manthia, We Won't Budge: An African Exile in the World (Teresa N. Washington): [40] 589-591

Dickson-Carr, Darryl, African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel (Robert Elliot Fox): [36] 329-330
--, The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction (Bernard W. Bell): [41] 185-187

Diedrich, Maria, Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing & Frederick Douglass (Christoph Irmscher): [35] 328-330

Dieke, Ikenna, ed., Critical Essays on Alice Walker (Carole Anne Taylor): [35] 489-491

Dixon, Melvin, Change of Territory (Adam David Miller): [17] 179-180

Dodson, Owen, Jazz in Praise of the Lord (Joe Weixlmann): [14] 53-54

Doreski, C. K., Writing America Black: Race Rhetoric in the Public Sphere (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [36] 141-143

Dorson, Richard M., American Negro Folktales (Charles Blaney): [3] 100

Douglass, Frederick, Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life; My Bondage and My Freedom; Life and Times, notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Wilson J. Moses): [30] 299-302

Dove, Rita, Grace Notes (Houston A. Baker, Jr.): [24] 574-577
--, Thomas and Beulah (John Shoptaw): [21] 335-341

Doyle, Laura, Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (Kimberly Drake): [30] 684-686

Doyle, Mary Ellen, Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Robert Butler): [38] 348-350
--, Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines (Marc Steinberg): [38] 350-351

Duberman, Martin, Left Out, the Politics of Exclusion: Essays, 1964-2002 (Robert J. Butler): [37] 471-472

Dudley, David L., My Father's Shadow: Intergenerational Conflict in African American Men's Autobiography (John Sekora): [28] 478

Duffy, Susan, ed., The Political Plays of Langston Hughes (R. Baxter Miller): [38] 723-727

Dunbar, Ernest, The Black Experience: A Study of American Negroes in Exile (Michel Fabre): [4] 35-36

Duncan, Charles, The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt (Henry B. Wonham): [35] 487-488

Dunitz, Robin J., Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals (Lynell George): [29] 531-533

Dusinberre, William, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (Eugene Genovese): [32] 159-161

Duvall, John N., The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness (Philip M. Weinstein): [36] 164-166

Dyson, Michael Eric, I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dwight N. Hopkins): [36] 169-170
--, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye (Ama Mazama): [40] 378-379

Early, Gerald, Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (Craig Werner): [31] 168-169

Edell, Celeste, A Present for Rosita (Marguerite P. Archer): [2] 13-14

Edmondson, Belinda, Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative (Bonnie J. Barthold): [34] 718-720

Edwards, Paul, and David Dabydeen, eds., Black Writers in Britain, 1760-1890 (Moira Ferguson): [31] 134-135

Edwards, Paul, and Polly Rewt, eds., Letters of Ignatius Sancho (Keith A. Sandiford): [31] 140-142

Egerton, Douglas R., Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (Mary Kemp Davis): [29] 678-681

Egerton, John, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (David L. Chappell): [31] 128-129

Eichelberger, Julia, Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in the Novels of Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty (Michael Kreyling): [34] 725-726

Elam, Harry J., Jr., The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson (Yuko Kurahashi): [39] 479-480
--, and Robert Alexander, eds., Colored Contradictions: An Anthology (Robert Baum): [31] 732-735
--, and Robert Alexander, eds., The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the Twenty-First Century (David Krasner): [40] 185-187

Elkins, Marilyn, ed., August Wilson: A Casebook (Paul Carter Harrison): [35] 676-679

Ellis, Thomas Sayers, The Genuine Negro Hero (Melba Joyce Boyd): [36] 352-354

Ellison, Curtis W., and E. W. Metcalf, Jr., William Wells Brown and Martin R. Delany: A Reference Guide (William L. Andrews): [13] 153-154

Ellison, Ralph, Going to the Territory (Cushing Strout): [23] 808-814
--, Flying Home and Other Stories, ed. John F. Callahan (Robert J. Butler): [32] 164-167

Emanuel, James A., Black Man Abroad: The Toulouse Poems (Joe Weixlmann): [13] 85-86
--, Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-89 (Matthew C. Brennan): [26] 358-360
--, Jazz from the Haiku King (Yoshinobu Hakutani): [35] 683-686

Emanuel, James A., and Theodore L. Gross., eds., Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America (Robert E. Fleming): [4] 37-38

English, Karen, Neeny Coming, Neeny Going (Dianne Johnson-Feelings): [31] 556-557

Epstein, Dena J., Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (Robert Hemenway): [12] 156

Esedebe, P. Olosqnwuche, Pan-Africanism: The Idea and Movement, 1776-1991 (Ama Mazama): [30] 469-470

Evans, Mari, ed., Black Women Writers 1950-1980: A Critical Evaluation (John Williams): [18] 177-178

Everett, Percival L., Erasure (Bernard W. Bell): [37] 474-477

Fabi, M. Giulia, Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel (Rita B. Dandridge): [36] 498-499

Fabre, Geneviève, Le thèâtre noir aux États-Unis (Andrzej Ceynowa): [17] 95-96
--, Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphor: Contemporary Afro-American Theatre (Errol Hill): [20] 459-462

Fabre, Geneviève, and Michel Feith, eds., Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance (Charles Scruggs): [36] 158-160

Fabre, Geneviève, and Robert O'Meally, eds., History & Memory in African-American Culture (Farah Jasmine Griffin): [30] 461-462

Fabre, Michel, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright (Edward Margolies): [29] 525-527

Fabre, Michel, and Robert E. Skinner, eds., Conversations with Chester Himes (Bernard W. Bell): [32] 351-355

Fair, Ronald L., World of Nothing (Robert E. Fleming): [5] 155

Fanuzzi, Robert, Abolition's Public Sphere (Aaron Ogletree, Esq.): [38] 541-543

Farnsworth, Robert M., ed., Caviar and Cabbage: Selected Columns by Melvin B. Tolson from the Washington Tribune, 1937-1944 (William H. Hansell): [18] 38-39
--, Melvin B. Tolson, 1898-1966: Plain Talk and Poetic Philosophy (William H. Hansell): [19] 131-132

Farr, Marcia, and Harvey Daniels, Language Diversity and Writing Instruction (Linda Fakundiny): [22] 849-857

Farred, Grant, ed., Rethinking C.L.R. James (Nicole R. King): [31] 535-537

Faulkner, Georgene, and John Becker, Melindy's Medal (Marguerite P. Archer): [2] 13

Feinstein, Sascha, and Yusef Komunyakaa, eds., The Jazz Poetry Anthology (Barry Wallenstein): [27] 665-671

Felton, Sharon, and Michelle C. Loris, ed., The Critical Response to Gloria Naylor (Debra Walker King): [33] 543-545

Ferguson, Moira, Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body (James Nagel): [34] 171-172

Ferguson, Moira, ed., The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals (Sandra Pouchet Paquet): [29] 517-519

Fetrow, Fred M., Robert Hayden (William H. Hansell): [19] 130-131

Fish, Cheryl J., Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations (Edlie Wong): [39] 467-468

Fishburn, Katherine, Richard Wright's Hero: The Faces of a Rebel-Victim (Keneth Kinnamon): [11] 157-158
--, The Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative (Frances Smith Foster): [33] 158-159

Fisher, Dexter, and Robert B. Stepto, eds., Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction (Claudia C. Tate): [13] 152-153

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices (Pascal Covici, Jr.): [29] 129-131

Fleming, Robert E., James Weldon Johnson and Arna Bontemps: A Reference Guide (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 117-118
--, Willard Motley (Jill Warren): [14] 82-84

Fleissner, Robert F., Shakespeare and Africa: The Dark Lady of His Sonnets Revamped and Other Africa-Related Associations (Lucy Kelly Hayden): [41] 588-589

Flowers, Sandra Hollin, African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s: Pens of Fire (William J. Harris): [33] 699-700

Floyd, Samuel A., Jr., The Power of Black Music (Christopher Brooks): [31] 540-542

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M., ed., Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society (Jaehwan Han): [41] 584-585

Foley, Barbara, Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 (Craig Werner): [30] 119-121

Folks, Jeffery J., From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern and Postmodern American Narrative (Philip Page): [36] 332-333

Forbes, Calvin, The Shine Poems (William Doreski): [36] 349-350

Forman, Seth, Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism (Emily Miller Budick): [34] 521-523

Forrest, Leon, Divine Days (Frederick Aldama and Cybele Knowles): [29] 160-162

Foster, Cecil, No Man in the House (Priscilla Ramsey): [29] 533-535

Foster, Frances Smith, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives (Susan L. Blake): [14] 160-163
--, Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (Jean Fagan Yellin): [30] 281-283
--, ed., Minnie's Sacrifice; Sowing and Reaping; Trial and Triumph: Three Undiscovered Novels by Frances E. W. Harper (Maryemma Graham and Gina M. Rossetti): [30] 302-304

Fowler, Virginia, Nikki Giovanni (Ann Folwell Stanford): [28] 481-484
--, ed., Conversations with Nikki Giovanni (Mozella G. Mitchell): [29] 155-157

Fox, Robert Elliot, Masters of the Drum (Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure): [31] 520-23

Fraden, Rena, Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935-1939 (Paul Nadler): [30] 476-478

Franklin, John Hope, and Genna Rae McNeil, African Americans and the Living Constitution (Tanya Y. Hill): [31] 308-310

French, Albert, Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption (Jeff Loeb): [33] 372-374

French, William P., Michel J. Fabre, Amritjit Singh, and Geneviève E. Fabre, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Joe Weixlmann): [14] 44-46

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