Bibliographic Details
Author: V. Ramaa Murthy
ISBN-13: 9789367216705
Pages: 346
Edition: First Edition (2027)
Binding: Paperback
Genre: Literature & Fiction > Literary Reference > Black Literature > Biographical Companion > African American & Diaspora Writers
Recommended Age Group: 16+ years; suitable for senior secondary, undergraduate, postgraduate, literature researchers, and general reference readers
Reading Difficulty: Advanced
Estimated Reading Time to Finish: 11–13 hours
Price: ₹ 745.00/-
Description
A Companion to Black Writers by V. Ramaa Murthy is a comprehensive literary reference work designed to introduce readers to the breadth, diversity, and historical depth of Black writing across periods, regions, genres, and cultural traditions. Arranged alphabetically, the volume offers concise yet informative entries on writers whose work has shaped poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography, journalism, criticism, children’s literature, speculative fiction, political thought, and public discourse. The book places canonical figures alongside contemporary voices, helping readers understand Black literature as a living and evolving field rather than a fixed historical category.
The companion covers a wide range of authors, from early and foundational figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Lucy Terry to major twentieth-century writers including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Octavia E. Butler, and August Wilson. It also includes important contemporary writers and thinkers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Colson Whitehead, Roxane Gay, Nnedi Okorafor, Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, Amanda Gorman, and many others.
With its introductory framework, alphabetical organisation, and list of entries, this book is especially useful for students, teachers, researchers, libraries, and readers seeking a reliable guide to Black literary achievement. Covering themes of identity, race, memory, migration, freedom, gender, community, resistance, creativity, and cultural transformation, A Companion to Black Writers serves as a valuable study aid and reference companion for courses in Black literature, African American studies, postcolonial studies, world literature, and cultural history.
Key Features
- Alphabetically arranged reference guide to Black writers.
- Covers early, modern, and contemporary literary voices.
- Includes poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, and activists.
- Useful for Black literature and African American studies.
- Features writers such as Morrison, Baldwin, Walker, and Hughes.
- Includes contemporary figures like Coates, Gorman, and Whitehead.
- Strong resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
- Supports courses in literature, culture, race, and identity.
- Includes introduction and detailed list of entries.
- First Edition 2027 from Doaba Publications.
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Year: 2027
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