Interests and Information

African American literature
American to 1900

coleman3@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-4003

James Coleman

 

BOOKS:

Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. x, 252. The paperback edition of Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred Spiritual and Supernatural in Twentieth-century African American Fiction is also available from LSU Press.

Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Pp. x, 193.

Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman. Jackson and London: The University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Pp. x, 167.

BOOK FORTHCOMING:

Accessing the Writing of John Edgar Wideman: Readings and Interpretations (LSU Press plans to publish the book in spring 2010.)

BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS:

An Uncertain Self: Memories of Ancestry, Race, and Education in Post-1950 America (memoir) (I have completed most of the book, and I am currently looking for a publisher.)