Celebrate this year’s Black History Month in the US with us and browse some of our literary studies highlights below! Visit our website for a curated list of the best books and resources across subjects.
Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans
by Steven Belletto
Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own “poem-life.” Drawing on interviews and deep archival research, Black Surrealist is the first critical biography of pioneering African-American writer Ted Joans (1928-2003).
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
Edited by Eugen Bacon
Long-listed for the 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award, Best Non-Fiction
In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
Edited by Kelly Reames & Linda Wagner-Martin
The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions.
African Literatures as World Literature
Edited by Alexander Fyfe & Madhu Krishna
Part of the Literatures as World Literature series, this collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of ‘the world’ in relation to local social and political issues.
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
by Tara T. Green
“A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.” – Booklist, starred review
“This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review