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Jack, Belinda Elizabeth, Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French (A. James Arnold): [32] 336-337

Jackson, Bruce, The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Charles Blaney): [3] 99

Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (Barbara A. McCaskill): [21] 453-462; (William L. Andrews): [21] 463-465
--, Peripecias en la vida de una joven esclava escritas por ella misma. Junto con "Un relato verdadero de esclavitud" de John S. Jacobs [Trans. Carme Manuel] (Baltasar Fra Molinero and Sue Houchins): [40] 835-837

James, Kelvin Christopher, Jumping Ship and Other Stories (Heather Hathaway): [29] 695-698

Janken, Kenneth Robert, Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual (Sterling Stuckey): [30] 125-127
--, White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP (Carol Anderson): [37] 664-666

Jeffers, Lance, O Africa, Where I Baked My Bread! (James A. Emanuel): [13] 76
--, Grandsire (Ray Fleming): [14] 85-88

Jemie, Onwuchekwa, Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry (Robert Hemenway): [11] 156-157

Johnson, Abby Arthur, and Ronald Mayberry Johnson, Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century (Stewart Rodnon): [14] 128-130

Johnson, Barbara, The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender (Claudia Tate): [34] 159-162

Johnson, Charles, Soulcatcher and Other Stories (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [36] 338-340

Johnson, Dianne, Telling Tales: The Pedagogy and the Promise of African American Literature for Youth (Vera R. Edwards): [28] 153-154
--, ed., Works for Children and Young Adults: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Writing. Vol. 11. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (R. Baxter Miller): [38] 727-729

Johnson, James Weldon, The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Volumes I-II, ed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Robert E. Fleming): [31] 351-352

Johnson, Michael K., Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature (John M. Reilly): [37] 647-649

Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar's Children (Maryemma Graham): [40] 596-598

Jones, Gayl, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (Gay Wilentz): [28] 141-144
--, White Rat (Gay Wilentz): [28] 144-145
--, The Healing (Candice M. Jenkins): [34] 365-366
--, Mosquito (Laurie Champion): [34] 366-368

Jones, LeRoi, Tales (Nick Aaron Ford): [1] 18-19

Jones, LeRoi, and Larry Neal, eds., Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (S. J. Sackett): [8] 252-253

Jones, Robert B., Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit (George Hutchinson): [30] 131-133

Jones, Robert B., ed., Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism (Kathleen Pfeiffer): [32] 497-499

Jones, Sharon L., Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (Martha J. Cutter): [37] 656-657

Jordan, A. Van, M-a-c-n-o-l-i-a (Julia A. Galbus): [40] 595-596

Jordan, Casper LeRoy, A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers (Craig Werner): [29] 509-510

Jordan, June, Technical Difficulties: Notes on the State of the Union (Carla Freccero): [32] 504-506

Joseph, Allison, In Every Seam (C. K. Doreski): [33] 726-727

Joyce, Joyce Ann, Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism (Madhu Dubey): [30] 464-467

Julius, Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven (Wilfred D. Samuels): [31] 176-182

Kachun, Mitch, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 (Virginia Whatley Smith): [38] 535-537

Kalaidjian, Walter, American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism & Postmodern Culture (Craig Werner): [30] 119-121

Kamau, Kwadwo Agymah, Flickering Shadows (Arlene R. Keizer): [33] 724-726

Kaplan, Carla, ed., Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (Teresa Gilliams): [38] 532-534

Karanja, Ayana, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice (Deborah G. Plant): [36] 162-164

Karcher, Carolyn L., The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (Annette Kolodny): [32] 167-169

Karrer, Wolfgang, and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, eds., The African American Short Story 1970 to 1990: A Collection of Critical Essays (Charles L. James): [31] 135-138

Keita, Maghan, Race and the Writing of History (Nell Irvin Painter): [36] 138-140

Keizer, Arlene R., Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Susan Blake): [40] 587-588

Keller, Frances Richardson, An American Crusade: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (William L. Andrews): [12] 155-156

Kellner, Bruce, ed., The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era (Linda Hamalian): [19] 90-91

King, Bruce, Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life (Daryl Cumber Dance): [36] 333-337

King, Debra Walker, Body Politics and the Fictional Double (Katherine Fishburn): [36] 151-152

King, Nicole, C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence (Paul Buhle): [37] 467-468

King, Woodie, Jr., Black Theatre: Present Condition (Owen Dodson): [17] 94-95
--, The Impact of Race: Theatre and Culture (Andrew Warnes): [38] 544-545
--, ed., New Plays for the Black Theatre (Joel Berkowitz): [25] 209-211

Kinnamon, Keneth, ed. New Essays on Native Son (Edward Margolies): [24] 821-828
--, and Michel Fabre, eds., Conversations with Richard Wright (Robert J. Butler): [29] 131-134

Kirschke, Amy Helene, Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory (Elizabeth Ammons): [42] 355-356

Klinkowitz, Jerome, The Life of Fiction (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 39-40
--, Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 39-40
--, ed., The Diaries of Willard Motley (Robert E. Fleming): [14] 84-85

Klotman, Phyllis Rauch, Another Man Gone: The Black Runner in Contemporary Afro-American Literature (Robert Hemenway): [11] 158
--, Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography (Joe Weixlmann): [14] 46-47
--, ed., Screenplays of the African American Experience (John Williams): [28] 317-320

Knight, Etheridge, Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems (Patricia Liggins Hill): [15] 77-79

Knopf, Marcy, ed., The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (Arlene Elder): [29] 681-682

Koblitz, Minnie W., The Negro in Schoolroom Literature (Bruce C. Appleby): [2] 33-34

Kocher, Ruth Ellen, Desdemona's Fire (Lesley Wheeler): [35] 342-343

Kolin, Philip C., Understanding Adrienne Kennedy (Robert L. Tener): [41] 181-183
--, and Susan Swartwout, eds., Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita (Carmaletta Williams): [42] 376-377

Komunyakaa, Yusef, Neon Vernacular (Alvin Aubert): [28] 671-673
--, Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Keith Gilyard): [35] 679-681

Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr., No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the Messenger, 1917-1928 (Daniel Walden): [11] 118-119

Krasner, David, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African-American Theatre, 1895-1910 (Christine R. Gray): [34] 155-156

Kruse, Ginny Moore, and Kathleen T. Horning, eds., Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults (Stan Evans): [28] 684-685

Kubitschek, Missy Dehn, Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion (Kimberly S. Drake): [35] 333-335

Lampe, Gregory P., Frederick Douglass: Freedom's Voice, 1818-1845 (Leslie R. Miller): [34] 162-163

Lane, Pinkie Gordon, I Never Scream: New and Selected Poems (Lillian D. Roland): [20] 294-298
--, Girl at the Window (Lenard D. Moore): [28] 311-312

Larson, Charles R., Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen (Rudolph P. Byrd): [30] 128-130

Latourtue, Regine, and Gleason R. W. Adams, trans., Les Cenelles: A Collection of Poems by Creole Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century (Sybil Kein): [14] 166-167

Lauret, Maria, Alice Walker (Loretta G. Woodard): [37] 170-171

Leach, Laurie F., Langston Hughes: A Biography (Robert Butler): [40] 386-387

Lee, A. Robert, ed., Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel Since 1945 (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.): [15] 36-39

Lee, Andrea, Sarah Phillips (Donald B. Gibson): [29] 164-166

Lee, Carol D., Signifying as a Scaffold for Literary Interpretation: The Pedagogical Implications of an African American Discourse Genre (R. Baird Shuman): [29] 693-695

Lee, Debbie, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (Jack Stillinger): [36] 679-680

Lee, Valerie, Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings (Kimberly Blockett): [33] 155-156

Leeming, David, James Baldwin: A Biography (Fred L. Standley): [31] 339-341

Leeson, Richard M., Lorraine Hansberry: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Margaret B. Wilkerson): [33] 710-712

Leininger-Miller, Theresa, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Amy Helene Kirschke): [37] 441-443

Lemke, Sieglinde, Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (Cyrena N. Pondrom): [35] 481-482

Leslie, Kent Anderson, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 (Nell Irvin Painter): [31] 538-539

LeSeur, Geta, Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman (Alice A. Deck): [33] 159-161

Levine, Robert S., Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (John Ernest): [33] 156-157

Lewis, Philip, Life of Death (Jerome Klinkowitz): [30] 148-149

Lhamon, W. T., Jr., Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular Culture (James V. Hatch): [38] 337-339

Litwack, Leon F., Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (Willard Gatewood): [34] 151-152

Lively, Adam, Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [36] 327-328

Locke, Alain LeRoy, Race Contacts and Interracial Relations (Richard A. Long): [29] 152-153

Long, Lisa A., ed., White Scholars/African American Texts (John C. Gruesser): [40] 598-601

Lott, Eric, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Tom Quirk): [29] 512-515

Lowe, John, Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy (Debra Walker King ): [30] 481-482
--, ed., Conversations with Ernest Gaines (Valerie Babb): [32] 350-351
--, ed., Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach (JoSann Lien): [41] 582-583

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