Cultural Poetics and Social Movements Initiated by Literature (Unabridged ed)

This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Terence Blanchard, Ann Petry, and Rita Dove.

It also discusses Viet Thanh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American writer, and his novel The Sympathizer.