The Afrocentric Imagination: Theory and Analysis
Afrocentricity and Literary Theory: The Maturing Imagination by Carol Aisha Blackshire
Locating a Text: Implications of Afrocentric Theory by Molefi Kete Asante
Refusing to Be Boxed In: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form by Frenzella Elaine De Lancey
Reassessing African American Literature through an Afrocentric Paradigm by Carolyn L. Holmes
Language Realities: Studies in Modern Societies
Cultural and Linguistic Transitions: The Comparative Case of African Americans and Ethnic Minorities in Germany by Carol Aisha Blackshire
African Languages in the African American Experience by Alamin Mazrui
Kitchen Table Talk: J. California Cooper's Use of Nommo--Female Bonding and Transcendence by Barbara J. Marshall
Literary Analysis: Style and Substance
Dilemma of the Dutiful Servant: The Poetry of Jupiter Hammon by Lonnell E. Johnson
The Blue/Black Poetics of Sonia Sanchez by Regina B. Jennings
Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry by Abu Shardow Abarry
Reflective Designs in Literary Works
Folk Idiom in the Literary Expression of Two African American Authors: Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa by Kirkland C. Jones
From Nice Colored Girl to Womanist: An Exploration of Development in Ntozake Shange's Writings by Geta LeSeur
De Jure Maurorum in Europa (On the Rights of Blacks in Europe): A Black Civil Rights Activist in Europe in the Eighteenth Century by Reginald Bess
Afterword
The African American Imagination in Language and Literature: An Afterword by Carol Aisha Blackshire
Index