CRITICISM

Butler, Robert. “Farrell's Ethnic Neighborhood and Wright's Urban Ghetto: Two Visions of Chicago's South Side.” MELUS 18, no. 1 (spring 1993): 103-11.

Comparative analysis of how Farrell and Wright represent the urban environment in their novels.

Cappetti, Carla. Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1993, 274 p.

Collection of essays focusing on the literature and social theories that originated in Chicago, including an analysis of Nelson Algren's Never Come Morning.

Cook, William W. “The Black Arts Poets.” In The Columbia History of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini, pp. 674-706. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Overview of the Black Arts Poetry movement, focusing on writers from the 1960s era.

Gray-Rosendale, Laura. “Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937).” In Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber, pp. 149-65. New York, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Studies Bontemps's novel as a text that couples the motifs of physical mobility and a transference from a rural landscape to an urban one, with an associated psychological mobility.

Guillory, David. “Tramping Across America: The Travel Writings of Vachel Lindsay.” Midamerica 27 (2000): 59-65.

Introduction to Lindsay's work in the context of his Chicago contemporaries.

Gwin, Minrose C. “Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human Community.” In Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition, edited by Marjorie Pryse and Hortense J. Spillers, pp. 132-50. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Analyzes Walker's Jubilee as a work that not only denotes the culmination of Walker's concerns as a writer, but also as a novel that synthesizes folk tradition, imagination, and moral vision.

Harrington, Joseph. “A Response to Lisa Woolley.” Langston Hughes Review 14, no. 1-2 (spring-fall 1996): 49-51.

Response to Woolley's article in the same journal regarding the connections Fenton Johnson created between African-American writing in Chicago and New York.

Lindberg, Kathryne V. “Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the ‘Margins’.” In Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers, edited by Margaret Dickie and Thomas Travisano, pp. 283-311. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Discusses the issues surrounding the reception of Gwendolyn Brooks's work since her change in literary stance in the late 1960s.

Powell, Bertie J. “The Black Experience in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Lorraine Hansberry's The Drinking Gourd.” CLA Journal 21 (1977): 304-11.

Comparative analysis of the two works in regards to their representation of the Black experience in America.