It has been said that historically, black women have been absent from much feminist theory, both in feminist literature and black literature. (Watkins, pp165) Two writers that are working to change this "HIStory", are Toni Morrison and Melissa Lucashenko. These writers' are both black...

"The road less traveled" Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not traveled both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down on as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim...

In The Eye Of The Beholder: The Search for Self in The Bluest Eye Ugliness and shame permeate Pecola Breedlove¡s being in every step she takes, every word she breathes, and every thought that her mind conceives. Pecola spends her life seeking acceptance in the eyes of those around her. She beli...

Among the many comments received about the early selections collected in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, the plaintive comment, even from early Americanists, about the number of so-called new writers represented there strikes me as most honest and forthright. Indeed, more than a few coll...