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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Literary Canons and Blackness | |
| Thomas Arnold's Attitude toward Race (1957) | 17 | |
| History, Slavery, and Thematic Irony in Huckleberry Finn (1985) | 25 | |
| Critical Theory and Problems of Canonicity in African American Literature (1989) | 32 | |
| Pt. 2 | The Humanities beyond Literary Canons | |
| Humanistic Protest in Recent Black Poetry (1973) | 41 | |
| Ethical Invisibility and the New Humanism (1974) | 48 | |
| The Humanities: The Eye of the Needle in the Black Experience (1984) | 54 | |
| Pt. 3 | Literary Forms of Historical Survival | |
| Metaphors of Black American Literary History | ||
| Urban Crisis and the Black Poetic Avant-Garde | 65 | |
| White Triangles, Black Circles (1975) | 72 | |
| Comic Irony | ||
| Black America and the Mask of Comedy (1973) | 85 | |
| Black Autobiography and the Comic Vision (1981) | 95 | |
| Comic Relief in Langston Hughes's Poetry (1981) | 108 | |
| Pt. 4 | Praisesong for Black Women Writers | |
| Diction and Style in Selected Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1984) | 121 | |
| Margaret Danner and the African Connection (1978) | 128 | |
| Margaret Walker: Folk Orature and Historical Prophecy (1986) | 134 | |
| Castration Symbolism in Recent Black American Fiction (1985) | 148 | |
| In Search of the Unbroken Circle: Black Nurturing in Selected Novels of Toni Morrison (1989) | 158 | |
| Pt. 5 | The Blues He Could Not Lose: Langston Hughes and His Work | |
| Humanistic Techniques Employed in Hughes's Poetry (1981) | 169 | |
| Hughes: Blues, Jazz, and Low-Down Folks (1977) | 183 | |
| Hughes's Poetry of the 1930's: A New Song for an Old Hurt (1977) | 202 | |
| Miscegenation on Broadway: Hughes's Mulatto and Edward Sheldon's The Nigger (1986) | 229 | |
| Langston Hughes and James Baldwin: Some Observations on a Literary Relationship (1988) | 239 | |
| Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Poet, the Preacher, and the Dream (1988) | 245 | |
| Pt. 6 | Conclusion | |
| The Graduate Experience from a Minority Perspective (1989) | 257 |
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