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• American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
• American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.

• Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

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• The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by April C. E. Langley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Yoshinobu Hakutani (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by David Nicholls (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• Black American Literature: Notes on the Problem of Definition (Ball State Monograph #22; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1971), by Joseph F. Trimmer (PDF at bsu.edu)
• Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Decade of Negro Self-Expression (Trustees of the John Slater Fund occasional paper #26; 1928), by Alain Locke, contrib. by Howard Washington Odum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (New York: Duffield and Co., 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (revised edition; New York: Duffield and Co., 1921), by Benjamin Brawley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The New Negro: An Interpretation (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), ed. by Alain Locke, illust. by Winold Reiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De la littérature des nègres, ou Recherches sur leur facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature; suivies de notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des nègres qui se sont distingués dan les sciences, les lettres et les arts (Maradan, 1808), by Henri Grégoire (page images at HathiTrust)
• The negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A decade of Negro self-expression ([Charlottesville, Va.], 1928), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2018), by Felice Blake (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977-1993 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Michael D. Hill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), ed. by Dana A. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Chiji Akoma (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro in American Fiction (originally published 1937; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968), by Sterling A. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Negro in American fiction, by Sterling A. Brown, ed. by Alain Locke (Gutenberg ebook)

• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jon Woodson (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Howard Rambsy (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Elizabeth Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetry of the blues (Oak Publications, 1963), by Samuel Charters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro poetry in America (Boston, Massachusetts : The Stratford Company publishers, 1925., 1925), by Lena Beatrice Morton and Mass.) Stratford Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Poets and Their Poems, by Robert Thomas Kerlin (Gutenberg ebook)

• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Flore Chevaillier
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The long schoolroom : lessons in the bitter logic of the poetic principle (University of Michigan Press, 1997), by Allen R. Grossman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Lois Tyson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas Vernon Reed (HTML at UC Press)
• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Arnold Krupat (HTML at UC Press)

• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The outlook for literature in the South. A lecture (Lecture committee of the Y.M.C.A., 1892), by Charles William Kent and YMCA (University of Tennessee) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

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