Trudier Harris Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Written by Professor Trudier Harris who explores the differences between Northern and Southern maids and between "mammy" and "militant." She touches on nearly all Black American writers of the twentieth century, but gives extended discussion of works by Charles Chesnutt, Kristin Hunter, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, William Melin Kelley, Alice Childresss, John A. Williams, Douglas Turner Ward, Barbara Woods, Ted Shine, and Ed Bullins.

Focuses on the issue of stereotypes of Black women

This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that influence homespaces in African American literature and analyzes why African American writers often portray troubling and dysfunctional homespaces.