Bernard W. Bell is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is editor of W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, and Poetics (1996), coeditor of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1998), and editor of Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist (2001).
A masterful performance, tremendously impressive as a work of literary criticism and theory, historical scholarship, and cultural study....It will become, without question, the standard work in the field, a stimulating source of critical insight and a valuable reference tool - one that everyone who writes about or teaches African American literature will need (and will be eagerl) to own. - William E. Cain, Wellesley College; ""Absolutely essential to the teaching of African American literature...Bell is a rare scholar whose knowledge of authors, works, historical movements, social history, folk formations, and subgenres of fiction is strikingly impressive."" - Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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