“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publica

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A black author's assault upon a society that transforms self-destructiveness into an art.

An Afro-Americanist, Ana M Fraile currently teaches postcolonial literatures at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her more recent publications include the boo

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