Blackness and the adventure of western culture

Introduction. Patterns of the Harlem Renaissance. The Soulful Way of Claude McKay. Langston Hughes and Afro-American Folk and Cultural Tradition. Richard Wright: Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture. On the Future Study of Richard Wright. The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. Baldwin and the Problem of Being. Ralph Ellison and Afro-American Folk and Cultural Tradition. Faulkner and the Heritage of White Racial Consciousness: Notes on White Nationalism in Literature. Before Ideology: Reflections on Ralph Ellison and the Sensibility of Younger Black Writers.