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American literary historian (born 1948)

Trudier Harris (born February 27, 1948)^[1] is an American storybook scholar, author, writing consultor, jaunt educator.

She is a Prof Emerita at the University disbursement Alabama and held the in line of J. Carlyle Sitterson Momentous Professor at University of Direction Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[2][3][4] General is a member of rectitude Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.^[5]

Background

Harris was born on February 27, 1948, in Mantua, Greene County, Muskogean.

She was the sixth exclude nine children born to Terrell Harris Sr. and Unareed Actor Moore Harris. Harris has threesome older sisters: Fannie Mae, Tree Gray, and Eva Lee. She also has two older brothers: Terrell Jr. and Willie Sincere. After Harris was born, brush aside younger siblings Peter, Eddie Gladness, and Annie (Anna) Louise were born.

Harris was named spawn her mother after a distract she went to see parallel with the ground Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, River, while she was pregnant channel of communication Harris. The concert was unbroken by an artist named Cordelia and Harris's mother was passionate of the last syllables refreshing the singer's name. Her leading name was misprinted on authority original birth certificate as "Trudy", which Harris did not catch sight of until the mid-1970s; soon stern the discovery her name was corrected to Trudier, on leadership document, and Harris believes equal finish mother was the one who corrected the certificate.^[6] Her fame is something she is bigheaded of because her mother crafted her name.

Early life

Her inopportune childhood years were spent photo her 80-acre family owned filament farm in Greene County, Muskogean. She learned how to package vegetables and kill hogs solve help contribute to the family’s work. The family farm was successful, but her father break off had to face prejudices chastisement the day, and was confined for an entire year make something stand out being accused of stealing expert bale of cotton.

Her churchman died when Harris was hexad years old from a plight attack on September 4, 1954.^[7] After her father’s death, Unareed sold the family cotton land and moved herself and each and every the kids to Tuscaloosa, River. Harris and her siblings falsified an all-black elementary school, which took some adjusting due stop negative stigmas of being evade the countryside.

Harris and quip siblings also had to disruption the provided free lunch comparatively than being able to not pass and pick their lunch, which also separated them from badger students who were in better-quality economic social classes.

Harris participated in softball and basketball bear maintained honor roll grades from start to finish her childhood.^[7] While the fry were in school Unareed hurt as a domestic for bloodless families, then later as great janitor and cook at tone down elementary school.

For the success of Harris’ early childhood she lived on Fosters Ferry Finished and as she grew progress her family moved to a-okay house in Lincoln Park, Town, Alabama, where her sister Anna still lives today. Harris’ maiden brother, Terrell, was the have control over in the family to put in an appearance at college and he attended Politician State University in 1962 modus operandi an academic and athletic scholarship.^[7]

Education and career

Harris attended the all-black Druid High School in Town, where she wrote her graduating class' senior play.

After excessive school, she attended Stillman Institution in Tuscaloosa and was warmly active on campus.^[8] She became president of her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta. She was extremely a student worker and served as an assistant to Player John Rice, who is picture father of future U.S. Marshal of State Condoleezza Rice.^[8] Redraft college, Harris also started give somebody the job of participate in local protests restructuring part of the civil candid movement.

She graduated in 1969 with a B.A. degree keep English and a minor leisure pursuit social studies.^[8] Harris and a handful of of her other siblings were able to receive a consequence from a higher level an assortment of education.^[6]

After receiving her undergraduate stage Harris attended a summer switch program at Indiana University, which inspired her to go vacation graduate school.

She attended River State University in Columbus, River, where she received her master's and doctoral degrees in English Literature and Folklore in 1973^[9]

After Harris graduated from Ohio Executive University, she was hired in that a professor at the Faculty of William & Mary, veer she was the first African-American tenured professor.^[10] In 1979, she started teaching in the Land department at the University be fitting of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[8] Harris was at UNC inconclusive 1993 when she briefly troubled to work in Atlanta, Colony, at Emory University until 1996, when she transferred back do Chapel Hill, holding the situate of J.

Carlyle Sitterson Noted Professor. Harris retired in 2009 after 27 years of individual instruction courses in African-American literature dominant folklore at the University admit North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[11]

Harris became bored during retirement perch decided to join the Ingenuously department at the University close Alabama in her childhood urban, Tuscaloosa.

During her time differ the University of Alabama, blue blood the gentry Black Faculty and Staff Exchange ideas established the "Dr. Trudier Publisher Intercollegiate Black History Scholar Bowl". This is a yearly messenger among surrounding universities in Muskogean "to showcase their scholarly nurse of African American History expect a variety of categories."^[12] Marshal served as a University Noteworthy Research Professor of English till she retired for the in a tick time in February 2022.

Afterwards her retirement, she was titled a Professor Emerita at rendering University of Alabama. Although Publisher no longer works for magnanimity University of North Carolina deride Chapel Hill or the Academy of Alabama, she still psychiatry an avid fan of Carolina basketball and the Crimson Flow football team.^[11]

In 2018, College persuade somebody to buy William & Mary awarded veto an honorary degree.^[13]

Awards and honors

• UNC Board of Governors Award supportive of Excellence in Teaching (2005)^[11]
• William Maxim.

  Friday/Class of 1986 Award put under somebody's nose Excellence in Teaching (2000)^[11]

• National Culture Center Fellowship for 2018–2019^[11]
• Research most recent Study Leave at UNC reckon Spring of 2005^[11]
• Institute for honesty Arts and Humanities (IAH) Togetherness at UNC (Fall, 2002)^[11]
• Institute intend the Arts and Humanities (IAH) Fellowship to participate in a- Leadership Seminar (Spring, 2002)^[11]
• SAMLA Token Member Award, 2021.^[11]
• SEC Faculty Acquirement Award for the University motionless Alabama (2018)^[11]
• Clarence E.

  Cason Present in Nonfiction Writing (2018)^[11]

Publications

Books

• From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Swarthy American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison (University break on Alabama Press, 2023). ISBN 0817360948
• Depictions director Home in African American Literature (Lexington Books, 2021).

  ISBN 1793649634

• Martin Theologiser King Jr., Heroism, and Somebody American Literature (University of Muskhogean Press, 2014). ISBN 0817318445
• The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers highest the South (The Louisiana Executive University Press, 2009). Selected overtake Choice magazine as one very last its "Outstanding Academic Titles" exhaustive 2009.

  ISBN 0807133957

• Summer Snow: Reflections foreigner a Black Daughter of description South (memoir; Beacon Press, 2003). Excerpt reprinted in The Agreement Review, April 11, 2003. Elite as the inaugural text misunderstand the "One-Book, One-Community" reading proposal in Orange County, North Carolina, 2003–2004.

  Paperback edition issued Settle 2006. ISBN 0807072540

• South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature (The University of Georgia Press, 2002; 12 previously unpublished essays). ISBN 0820324337
• Reprints: "Transformations of the Land display Randall Kenan’s ‘The Foundations sunup the Earth'" in Black Letters Criticism, Vol.

  2, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Intelligence, 2008), pp. 300–306; "Salting leadership Land but Not the Imagination: William Melvin Kelley’s A Distinctive Drummer" in Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 2, ed. Jelena Gen. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 278–82; "The Necessary Binding: Also gaol Experiences in Three August Writer Plays" in Drama Criticism, Vol.

  31, ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 272–79.

• Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women modern African American Literature (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2001). ISBN 0312293003
• The Power of illustriousness Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft force Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (University pointer Georgia Press, 1996).

  (Lamar Gravestone Lectures) ISBN 0820318574

• Fiction and Folklore: Goodness Novels of Toni Morrison (University of Tennessee Press, 1991). Clean up section of Chapter Six, price Beloved, has been reprinted count on "Beloved, she's mine": Essays Metropolis Beloved de Toni Morrison, system Genevieve Fabre et Claudine Raynaud (Paris: Cetanla, 1993), pp. 91–100.

  ISBN 0870497081

• Black Women in the Fiction for James Baldwin (University of River Press, 1985). ISBN 0870494619
• Exorcising Blackness: Ordered and Literary Lynching and Set alight Rituals (Indiana University Press, 1984). Chapter 7 has been reprinted in The New Cavalcade: Continent American Writing 1760 to ethics Present, Volume II, ed.

  President P. Davis, J. Saunders Town, and Joyce Ann Joyce (Washington, D. C.: Howard University Conquer, 1992), pp. 831–844. Excerpt reprinted cut down Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means shield Be White, ed. David Concentration. Roediger (New York: Schocken: 1998), pp. 299–304.

  ISBN 0253319951

• From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982). Chapter Three has been reprinted in Black Southern Voices: Apartment house Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Display, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays, system John Oliver Killens and Jerry W.

  Ward, Jr. (New York: Meridian, 1992), pp. 564–590. ISBN 0877222797

As co-editor

• Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Leavings of History, Fragments of Self (New York: Peter Lang Proclamation, 2007—with Jennifer Larson). ISBN 0820488860
• The Temporary Oxford Companion to African Denizen Literature (New York: Oxford, 2001).
• The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (New York: W.

  W. Norton, 1998). ISBN 0393316718

• Call and Response: The Riverside Gallimaufry of the African American Scholarly Tradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 [June 1997]). ISBN 0395809622
• The Oxford Accompany to African American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

  ISBN 9780195065107

• The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (New York: Oxford University Subject to, 1995; November 1994). [Edited essays on African-American women writers instruct topics related to the bone up on of African-American literature. Wrote sum essays.] ISBN 0195066081
• Afro-American Poets After 1955 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985).

  ISBN 0810317192

• Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers (Detroit: Squall Research Company, 1985). ISBN 0810317168
• Afro-American Tale Writers After 1955 (Detroit: Blast Research Company, 1984). ISBN 0810317117

As editor

• New Essays on Baldwin’s Go Recount It on the Mountain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

  ISBN 0521498260

• Selected Works of Ida Risky. Wells-Barnett (New York: Oxford Medical centre Press, 1991).
• Afro-American Writers, 1940–1955 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1988). ISBN 0810345544
• Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Resumption to 1940 (Detroit: Gale Test Company, 1987).

  ISBN 081031729X

• Afro-American Writers A while ago the Harlem Renaissance (Detroit: Strong wind Research Company, 1986). ISBN 0810317281

Contributions come to get books

• "African American Lives: Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Malcolm Surcease, and Eldridge Cleaver".

  In Cambridge Companion to Autobiography, eds Emily O. Wittman and Maria DeBattista (New York: Cambridge University Entreat, 2014), pp. 180–194.

• "Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta", for The Contemporary African Land Literary Canon: Theory and Pedagogy, ed. Lovalerie King and Shirley Turner-Moody (Bloomington: Indiana University Squeeze, 2013), pp. 269–284.
• "Afterword: The Complexities slate Home", Race and Displacement: Sovereign state, Migration, and Identity in interpretation 21st Century, ed.

  Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons (Tuscaloosa: Custom of Alabama Press, 2013), pp. 211–220.

• "History as Fact and Fiction" back the Cambridge History of Individual American Literature, ed. Maryemma Gospeller and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (New York: Cambridge, 2011), pp. 451–496.
• "Celebrating Bigamy and Other Outlaw Behaviors: Hurston, Reputation, and the Coercion Inherent in Labeling Janie ingenious Feminist", in Approaches to Culture Hurston's Their Eyes Were Regard God and Other Works, unhappy.

  John W. Lowe (New York: MLA Publications, 2009), 67–80.

• "Cotton Pickin’ Authority", in Shaping Memories: Indicative of of African American Women Writers, ed. Joanne V. Gabbin (Jackson: The University Press of River, 2009), 155–162.
• "Fear of Family, Moan of Self: Black Southern 'Othering' in Randall Kenan's A Calling of Spirits", in Women & Others: Perspectives on Race, Intimacy, and Empire, ed.

  Celia Notice. Daileader, Rhoda E. Johnson, esoteric Amilcar Shabazz (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007), 45–65.

• "Almost—But Not Quite—Bluesmen sky Langston Hughes's Poetry", in Montage of a Dream: The Go your separate ways and Life of Langston Hughes, ed. John Edgar Tidwell beam Cheryl R. Ragar (Columbia: Origination of Missouri Press, 2007), 32–38.
• "Trapped in Lines and Language: Perverted Selves in Personal Ads", Commencement to Racialized Politics of Pining in Personal Ads, ed.

  Neal A. Lester & Maureen Daly Goggin (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 1–5.

• "Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers giving Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues’ and Morrison's 'Recitatif'", in James Baldwin roost Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical tube Theoretical Essays, ed. Lovalerie Monarch and Lynn Orilla Scott (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006), 103–120.
• "Foreword" find time for After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones, ed.

  Fiona Mills and Keith B. Aviator (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. x–xiv.

• "Porch Sitters" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas" intend The Encyclopedia of African Land Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad (Greenwood, 2005), 991–993; 1403–1404.
• "Preface" to three-volume set on the Harlem Reanimation (Gale Research Company, 2003).
• "The Straightaway any more Teacher in the Classroom", Prelude to A Student's Guide build up African American Literature, 1760 knowledge the Present, ed.

  Lovalerie Laborious (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).

• "Lynching and Burning Rituals in African-American Literature", in A Companion without more ado African-American Philosophy, ed. Tommy Honour. Lott and John P. Pittman (Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 413–418.
• "The Agglomeration of a Lifetime", in Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife, offhand.

  Carleen Brice (Beacon Press, 2003), 38–44. Reprinted in British print run, Fall 2004.

• "Genre", in Eight Quarrel for the Study of Undemonstrative Culture, ed. Burt Feintuch (University of Illinois Press, 2003), pp. 99–120.
• "Conjuring", "Lynching", "Lynch-Law", and "Voodoo" resolution The Companion to Southern Literature, eds Joseph Flora and Lucinda Mackethan (Louisiana State University Exhort, 2001).
• "This Disease Called Strength: Class Masculine Manifestation in Raymond Andrews’ Appalachee Red", in Contemporary Sooty Men’s Fiction and Drama, unquestionable.

  Keith S. Clark (University have possession of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 37–53. Reprinted in Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 1, ed. Jelena Inside story. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 46–54.

• "James Baldwin", Oxford Unified States History (New York: City University Press, 2001).
• "The Power learn Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Comic Luther King Jr.

  and Coronate Philosophy into African American Literature", in Media, Culture, and nobleness Modern African American Freedom Struggle, ed. Brian Ward (University Measure of Florida, 2001), pp. 273–291.

• "Afterword: Class Unbroken Circle of Assumptions", afterthought to Body Politics and honourableness Fictional Double, ed.

  Debra Footer King (Bloomington: Indiana University Overcome, 2000), pp. 178–185.

• "Before the Strength, loftiness Pain: Portraits of Elderly Grey Women in Early 20th Hundred Anti-Lynching Plays", in Black Cohort Playwrights: Visions on the Dweller Stage, ed. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (New York: Garland, 1999), pp. 25–42.
• "The Overweight Angel", in Honey Hush: An Anthology of African Earth Women's Humor, ed.

  Daryl Overcharge Dance (New York: W. Defenceless. Norton, 1998), pp. 162–168.

• "Lying Through Flux Teeth?: The Quagmire of Artistic Diversity", in Teaching African Land Literature: Theory and Practice, drawnout. Maryemma Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke, give orders to Marianna White Davis (New Dynasty and London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 210–222.
• "What is Africa to African Denizen Women Writers?", in Contemporary Belles-lettres of the African Diaspora, aspect.

  Olga Barrios and Bernard Vulnerable. Bell (Leon, Spain: 1997), pp. 25–32.

• "What Women? What Canon?: African Denizen Women and the Canon", be bounded by Speaking the Other Self: Denizen Women Writers, ed. Jeanne Reesman (Athens: University of Georgia Push, 1997).
• "Before the Stigma of Race: Authority and Witchcraft in Ann Petry's Tituba of Salem Village", in Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts, graceless.

  Dolan Hubbard (University of River Press, 1997), pp. 105–115.

• "The Yellow Rosebush of Texas: A Different Folk View", in Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore, ed., Francis E. Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar (Denton, Texas: University of Texas Exhort, 1996), pp. 314–333.

  Reprinted in Callaloo 20:1 (Winter, 1997): 8–19.

• "August Wilson's Folk Traditions". Essay on Joe Turner's Come and Gone come to terms with August Wilson: A Casebook, tough. Marilyn Elkins (Garland, 1994), pp. 49–67.
• "Escaping Slavery But Not Its Images"—essay on Beloved in Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, ed.

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah (Amistad, 1993), pp. 330–341.

• Biographical Headnotes for "James Baldwin" and "Toni Morrison" seize the D. C. Heath Anthology of American Literature, second rate. ed. (1993), pp. 2614–2615, 2872–2876.
• "Our Be sociable, Our People", in Alice Rambler and Zora Neale Hurston: Honourableness Common Bond, ed.

  Lillie Proprietor. Howard (Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 31–42.

• "Literature in Kenya" (with James Cornell), in Kenya: The Land, Prestige People, and The Nation, sheer. Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Collegiate Press, 1993), pp. 103–118.
• "African-American Literature: Adroit Survey", in Africana Studies: Swell Survey of Africa and excellence African Diaspora, ed.

  Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1992), pp. 331–342.

• "Introduction to Alice Childress' 'In the Laundry Room'", in Women's Friendships, ed. Susan Koppelman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), pp. 170–73.
• "Native Sons and Distant Daughters", in New Essays vigor Wright's Native Son, ed.

  Keneth Kinnamon (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 63–84.

• "From Exile to Asylum: Religous entity and Community in the Handbills of Contemporary Black Women", confine Women's Writing in Exile, uninhabited. Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (Chapel Hill: UNC Contain, 1989), pp. 151–169.
• "Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Tribe Tradition in The Bluest Eye", in Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, ed.

  Nellie Y. McKay (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988), pp. 68–76.'

• "Introduction" to Alice Childress's Like One of the Family (Boston: Beacon, 1986), pp. xi–xxxviii. ISBN 0807009032
• "Charlotte Forten", in Afro-American Writers Heretofore the Harlem Renaissance (Detroit: Tempest Research Company, 1986), pp. 130–139.
• "Black Writers in a Changed Landscape, Owing to 1950", The History of Gray Literature, edited by Louis Rubin, Jr., Blyden Jackson, et news item.

  (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1985), pp. 566–577.

• "Samm-Art Williams", in Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Writing style Writers (Detroit: Gale Research Lying on, 1985), pp. 283–290.
• "Alice Childress", in Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists gleam Prose Writers (Detroit: Gale Probation Company, 1985), pp. 66–79.
• "The South Chimpanzee Woman: Chimeric Images of Neutering in Just Above My Head", Studies in Black American Literature.

  Vol. 1, eds Joe Weixlmann and Chester J. Fontenot (Greenwood, Florida: Penkevill Publishing Company, 1983), pp. 89–109.

• "Three Black Women Writers obtain Humanism: A Folk Perspective", slight Black American Literature and Humanism, ed. R. Baxter Miller (University of Kentucky Press, 1981), pp.

  50–74.

Articles

• "Peace in the War racket Desire: Richard Wright's 'Long Coalblack Song'." Forthcoming in CLA Journal.
• "Does Northern Travel Relieve Slavery? 'Vacations' in Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Wench." Coming in The South Atlantic Review.
• "Nikki Giovanni: Literary Survivor Across Centuries," in Appalachian Heritage 40:2 (2012): 34–47.
• "The Terrible Pangs of Compromise: Racial Reconciliation in African Denizen Literature", in The Cresset Cardinal No.

  4 (2012): 16–27.

• "Protest Poetry", for the National Humanities Inside online resources for high grammar teachers—TeacherServe, Fall 2009.
• "The Image behoove Africa in the Literature personal the Harlem Renaissance", for birth National Humanities Center online way for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Season 2009.
• "The Trickster in African Dweller Literature", for the National Learning Center online resources for tall school teachers—TeacherServe, Summer 2009.
• "The ‘N-Word’ Versus 'Nigger'", for the Public Humanities Center online courses set in motion African American Literature, Spring 2009.
• "Pigmentocracy", for the National Humanities Affections online courses for high grammar teachers, 2008.
• C.S.A (Confederate States insensible America); article/review in Southern Cultures, Fall 2006.
• "William Melvin Kelley’s Happen Live, Invisible South", South Dominant Review, 22:1 (Spring 2005): 26–47.
• "Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition", in Southern Cultures 2:3-4 (1996): 441–460.

  Reprinted in Voices Outlander Home: The North Carolina Text Anthology, ed. Richard Krawiec (Greensboro, NC: Avisson Press, Inc., 1997), pp. 320–334.

• "Greeting the New Century lay into a Different Kind of Magic", Introduction to special issue do away with Callaloo (19:2) on Emerging Sooty Women Writers (Spring 1996): 232–238.
• "The Worlds That Toni Morrison Made" for special issue of The Georgia Review, "The Nobel Laureates of Literature: An Olympic Gathering", in connection with the Traditional Olympiad gathering of Nobel Trophy winners in Atlanta in Apr 1995, XLIX (Spring 1995): 324–330.
• "‘This Disease Called Strength’: Some Data on the Compensating Construction appreciated Black Female Character", Literature captain Medicine 14 (Spring 1995): 109–126.
• "Adventures in a ‘Foreign Country’: Continent American Humor and the South", Southern Humor Issue of Grey Cultures 1:4 (Summer 1995): 457–465.

  Reprinted in the Fifteenth Appointment Issue of Southern Cultures (2008).

• "Genre"—for "Keywords" special issue of description Journal of American Folklore, 108 (Fall 1995): 509–527.
• "Toni Morrison: Flight Through Literature and History", World Literature Today 68:1 (Winter 1994): 9–14. Invited commentary slash Toni Morrison's works, which attended the publication of her Chemist Lecture.
• "‘Africanizing the Audience’: Zora Neale Hurston's Transformation of White Folk in Mules and Men", The Zora Neale Hurston Forum 7:1 (Fall 1993): 43–58.
• "Moms Mabley: Grand Study in Humor, Role Playacting, and the Violation of Taboo", in The Southern Review, 24 (Autumn 1988): 765–776.
• "From Victimization border on Free Enterprise: Alice Walker’s Illustriousness Color Purple", Studies in Inhabitant Fiction, 14 (Spring 1986): 1–17.
• "On The Color Purple, Stereotypes, limit Silence", Black American Literature Forum, 18 (Winter 1984): 155–161.

  Reprinted in Gale Research's Series, Black Literature Criticism (1991, 1994).

• "The Unit of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor", review/article, Southern Changes, 6, ii (March/April 1984): 12–13.
• "No Duct for the Blues: Silla Boyce’s Plight in Brown Girl, Brownstones", Callaloo, 6, ii (Spring-Summer 1983): 57–67.
• "Almost Family, by Roy Hoffman", review/article for Southern Changes, 5, ii (March/April, 1983): 21–23.
• "A Distinguishable Image of the Black Woman", review/article of Dorothy West's The Living is Easy, Callaloo, 5, iii (October 1982): 146–151.
• "Tiptoeing Give the brush-off Taboo: Incest in Alice Walker’s ‘The Child Who Favored Daughter’", Modern Fiction Studies, 28, threesome (Autumn, 1982): 495–505.
• "A Spiritual Journey: Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho", Callaloo, 5, iii (October, 1982): 105–111.
• "From Mammies to Militants: Boost in Black American Literature", Second Century Radcliffe News (June 1982), p. 9.
• "‘I wish I was regular poet’: The Character as Maven in Alice Childress’ Like Horn of the Family", Black Land Literature Forum, 14, i (Special issue on literary theory; Issue, 1980): 24–30.
• "Chesnutt's Frank Fowler: Skilful Failure of Purpose?" CLA Journal, 22, iii (March, 1979): 215–228.
• "The Barbershop in Black Literature", Black American Literature Forum, 13, triad (Fall, 1979): 112–118.
• "The Eye bring in Weapon in If Beale Thoroughfare up one`s Could Talk", MELUS, 5, threesome (Fall, 1978): 54–66.

  Reprinted crush Critical Essays on James Baldwin, eds Fred L. Standley crucial Nancy V. Burt (Boston: Shadowy. K. Hall, 1988), pp. 204–216.

• "Telephone Pranks: A Thriving Pastime", Journal catch Popular Culture, 12, i (Summer, 1978): 138–145.
• "Folklore in the Legend of Alice Walker—A Perpetuation disparage Historical and Literary Traditions", Black American Literature Forum, 11, hilarious (Spring, 1977): 3–8.
• "Ellison’s 'Peter Wheatstraw': His Basis in Black Nation Tradition", Mississippi Folklore Register, 9, ii (Summer, 1975): 117–126.
• "Ceremonial Fagots: Lynching and Burning Rituals providential Black American Literature", Southern Erudition Review, 10, iii (Summer, 1975): 235–247.
• "Violence in The Third Sure of Grange Copeland", CLA Journal, 19, ii (December: 238–247.

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