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Entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945 provide biographical information, discussions of major works and themes, summaries of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographical citations.

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There is growing popular and scholarly interest in autobiography, along with increasing regard for the achievements of African American writers. Together, the entries provide a detailed portrait of the African American autobiographical tradition from the 18th century to the present.

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Contributors provide alphabetically arranged entries on the lives and writings of 70 Asian American novelists.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature.

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A sourcebook on gay US fiction writers aiming for recognition of this emergent area of literary study. The works are examined in a gay literary context and each entry includes biographical details, an interpretive summary of works, an overview of critical reception, and bibliographies.

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Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists.

While the majority of included writers are younger artists who came of age in the post-Stonewall U.S., some are older authors whose work has continued or persisted into recent decades.

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Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.

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Adopting the concept of diaspora--literally dispersal, or the scattering of a people--to the historical and contemporary presence of people of Indian subcontinental origin in other areas of the world, Emmanuel Nelson uses this paradigm to analyze Indian expatriate writing.

In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts.