African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Historical Overview of Ancient and Contemporary Representations of Classical Mythology

Chapter 3 Classical Discourse as Political Agency

Chapter 4 Gwendolyn Brooks’ Racialization of the Persephone and Demeter Myth in “The Anniad” and “In the Mecca”

Chapter 5 The Destruction and Reconstruction of Classical and Cultural Myth in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Beloved , and The Bluest Eye