The Handbook of African American Literature by Hazel Arnett ErvinISBN: 9780813027500
Publication Date: 2004
The handbook features an A to Z compilation of 415 literary terms, ages, movements, periods, and cultural sources, all cross-referenced. Terms include techniques, genres, themes, forms, well-known phrases, modes of discourse, theoretical concepts, and diction from music and linguistics. Eight full-length essays, which serve as introductions to important aspects of literary theory and criticism, cover major terms—ambiguity, memory, signification, repetition, collective unconscious, representation, influence, and literary history.