LECTURES 2
On the Study of African American Literature:The Obligations of Literary History 2
Tradition and Acknowledgement in Combat Zones 15
African American Literature's Response to Modernity 25
Richard Wright Centennial Lectures 36
Richard Wright and 21st Century Questions 68
The Critical Importance of Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices 78
Trickster Criticism:Kenneth Warren's What Was African American Literature? 89
Recent African American Studies 99
The Critical Journey of Houston A.Baker,Jr 109
Representation and Natasha Trethewey'Poetry 122
Southern Version of Truth:Minrose Gwin's The Queen of Palmyra and Katheryn stockett's The Help 134
"Django Unchained":Ambiguous Ethical Response and the Principle of Double Effect 143
APPENDIX:Blogs and Other Writings 150
Remarks on April 4,1997 150
Introduction for Witherspoon 153
A Letter to Nathan McCall 156
Playing in the Sunlight:Colors of Imagination,or Toni Morrison Revisited October 22,1996/August 10,2011 158
The Ethnic Ethical Turn 162
On the Letters of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison 164
Richard Wright's Spinning of Tales 169
Wideman's Fanon 178
A Poetic Journey 181
Toi Derricotte's Open Confession 183
The"Death"of African American Literature 185
The Excellent Absurdity of Legitimate Rape:A Note on Art and History 190
Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words 193
The White Minstrelsy of American Politics 195
America's Soul Unchained 197
Houston A.Baker,Jr.'s Critical Memory 202
Poem 65 204
On Being Like My Tree 205
Winter Solitude 210
Gordon Parks:Photography and Intervention 212
Free Southern Theater 214
Mirror of Violence:Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign 219
Ramcat Reads 221
The Gifts of Black Prisoners 228
Cultural Literacy and The New York Times 231
Remembering Alvin Aubert and Amiri Baraka 233