Nonfiction
Winter 1995
Singing America: From Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich
When the Civil Rights movement came along in the late fifties, early sixties, and I began to hear Black voices describing and analyzing what were the concrete issues for Black […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1993
Canon Revision Update: A 1992 Edition
1959 by Thulani Davis. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. 297 pages. $19.95. Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove. New York: Pantheon, 1992. 278 pages. $21.00. Bailey’s Café by Gloria […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1992
The Two Renaissances and Shakespeare’s Canonical Position
The idea of the great literary tradition and the name of Shakespeare are so closely intertwined that they are virtually synonymous. The canon’s flexibility can be demonstrated by the fluctuating […]