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Black literature and literary theory
Discrepant engagement
Black African literature in English
Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur
Nothing except ourselves
Understanding Othello
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895
The anatomy of blackness
Shakespeare and Africa
Traces, Codes, and Clues
Rereading Nadine Gordimer
Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature
Slavery and the Romantic imagination
Without Hatred or Fears
A people's voice
The maroon narrative
What's a Black Critic to Do II
The militant black writer in Africa and the United States
Motherlands
Readings on Othello
America and the black body
Playing in the dark
Post-colonial literatures in English
The Origin of Others
Shakespeare and race
Black face, maligned race
The New African
Subject to others
The Black woman
The negro in English romantic thought, or, a study of sympathy for the oppressed
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