Bernard W. Bell

The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

This study is an addition to the growing body of scholarly analysis examining the Afro-American contribution. It is based on the premise that in the l...

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading ...

Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency

An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell. Bearing Witness to Afr...

The Folk Roots of Contemporary Afro-American Poetry

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Call And Response

The Riverside Anthology Of The African American Literary Tradition

This comprehensive, chronological anthology of African and African American literature asserts that there is a distinctly black literary and cultural ...