Glenda Carpio & Werner Sollors, eds., African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges. Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 55, n°4, 2010

This special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies edited by Glenda Carpio and Werner Sollors offers an embarrassment of riches. First and foremost, the reader discovers an exceptional gathering of hitherto unknown primary sources: five short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, two of her previously unpublished letters as well as new texts by Jamaica Kincaid and Ishmael Reed are printed here for the first time. The volume also includes several scholarly articles casting new perspectives on the ...