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In the landscape of African-American literature, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison form a powerful trinity offering sustained critiques of American culture on a range of levels -- socially, artistically, and psychically. One of the principal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was virtuosic in his literary craft, and one of his more powerful works -- "Father and Son" -- remains a landmark meditation on the alienation facing African-Americans on American soil.
Building upon the mature work of Hughes, Richard Wright reveals a nation of the bitter dream in his...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick a jazz novel? Nathaniel Hawthorne as playful as Charlie Bird Parker? Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison trading twelves, across the gulf of time, on the "American" character? These are just some of the questions explored in American Humors. Beginning with Hawthorne and ending with Toni Morrison, this book offers a jazz-inflected tour of the literary history of the United States. Along the way, we see how American writers extend the achievements of their literary ancestors; we see the well-springs of the creative process; we see how the insistence upon improvisation...