Product Description: This volume consists of twenty-five stories, five each by five Texas writers. Except for the five points of the Texas Lone Star, there’s nothing particularly Texan about the number five—nor the number twenty-five—yet the stories whole-heartedly represent many facets of Texas...read more

Product Description: Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in The Crisis and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating the movement’s major themes, her often award-winning stories, delicate and understated, offer subtle commentary on the status of black women, their role in black society, and the position of African Americans in an overwhelmingly white society...read more

Covers more than sixty women who published significant fiction after 1945, with a brief biography, exposition of major works and themes, survey of critical reception, and references to primary and secondary sources for each. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Exploring the Afro-Texas Experience is a broad-based compilation of source material on African-American history, folkways, fiction, films, and politics in Texas. Glasrud and Champion have performed a masterful job of creating a highly coherent and usable volume. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Eudora Welty holds a prominent position among Southern writers, receiving critical attention in publications that scan a wide range of interests. Journals that specialize in American literature, journals that publish general essays, and journals that focus on Southern literature frequently include articles about her works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Proclaimed by H.L. Mencken as one of the great masterpieces of the world and by Ernest Hemingway as the source of all modern American literature, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains firmly established in both the American and world literary canons as a classic work of literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)