African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers

History has not been kind to the 1980s. The decade is often associated with absurd fashion choices, neo-Conservatism in the Reagan/Bush years, the AIDS crisis,

Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of disti

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of th

The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed t