Book of Donmon Teith

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

First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless

A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm

This pioneering study of Afro-American narrative is far more critical, historical, and textual than biographical, chronological, and atextual. Robert Stepto ass