Investigating demands in the late-20th-century US for authentic ethnic texts as a continuation of the expansion of regional literary forms at the beginnings of the century, Karem (English, Cleveland S
The Purloined Islands offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest in
In a volume taking its title from Poe's story "The Purloined Letter," Karem (English, Cleveland State U.) treats US American purloining (i.e., marginalizing) of the Carribean islands' contribution to
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American
