As an editor, Morrison played an important role in bringing black literature into the mainstream.

But for me the most important issue raised by the article is the question of which literary standards to apply to black literature.

At his death he was developing an anthology of black American literature.

I taught a course in black literature to freshmen.

Of course, there's a black culture, a whole black literature, that must be left to others.

A retired bookstore owner offers a tour of black feminist literature.

His mother, who died in 1977, taught art and black literature.

I felt that he had little sympathy for my recently acquired interests in black literature and black studies.

The troubled relationship between a father and a son is a theme that has been little explored in black literature until the last few decades.