The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books...

"This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated...

The first oral history to fully explore the contributions of black women intellectuals of the Black Arts Movement, Sistuhs in the Struggle reclaims a vital yet under researched chapter in African American, women's, and theater history. This study documents how black women theater artists and activists- many of whom worked behind the scenes as directors, designers, producers, stage managers, and artistic directors- disseminated the black aesthetic...

"The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies - termed the post-soul era - created new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representation. Daphne Lamothe shows that beginning around 1980 and continuing to the present day, Black literature, art, and music resisted the pull of singular and universal notions of racial identity. Developing the idea of 'Black aesthetic time' - a multipronged...

"The book includes Dmitri Bykov, writer and journalist, "Extracurricular Reading," including new essays on Russian and foreign writers-Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Korolenko, Kuprin, A. Tolst, Platonov, Simonov, Dumas, Kipling, Wilde, Twain, and others."--

'Seamus Heaney' is another volume in the Irish Writers Series, monographs designed to treat individually modern Anglo-Irish authors. The present volume, by Robert Buttel, treats Heaney's three volumes of poetry, and, along with its rich quotations from the poems, provides a perceptive analysis of this poet's art and development."