Rafia Zafar Books
We wear the mask
By Rafia Zafar
From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, African Americans contributed important works to the country's blossoming literary canon. Written in a variety of genres, fr...
Read MoreWe wear the mask
By Rafia Zafar
From America's revolutionary period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, African Americans contributed important works to the country's blossoming literary canon. Written in a variety of genres, fr...
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays
By Rafia Zafar, Deborah M. Garfield
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has notuntil now - been the subject of sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology p...
Read MoreHarlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA 217)
By Rafia Zafar
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama rooted in Toomer's experiences as a teacher in Georgia. Toome...
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