In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies. And, while she is a citizen of the republic of literature in the broadest and most cosmopolitan sense, her work suggest formal linkage to that of Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and, more recently, Toni Morrison.
-- from the Preface by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
henry-louis-gates,-kwame-anthony-appiahAuthor: Henry Louis Gates, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336 pages
Publisher: Amistad Press (February 1993)
Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
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