MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States · 2015 · 19 citations · 1 references
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I loved doing the book [ The Black Book ]. And, like the race, it drove me to distraction. But it was a true labor of love. Black people from all over helped with it, called about things to put in it. And, as of this writing, nobody has seen all of it together but me, the designer, the production man (who is Black) and the printer (who is Black). —Toni Morrison (89) [We have] to reconsider how we have tended to define “African-American literature” or “African-American print culture” and whether these definitions provide the appropriate depth and complexity. Much of the archival work and reprints upon which we rely in African-American literary studies today came during the Black Aesthetic period of the late 1960s and ’70s. —Frances Smith Foster (732)
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