College English, Vol. 52, No. 7, November 1990

Table of Contents

• Current Thought in African-American Literary Criticism: An Introduction

  Guest Editor: Reginald Martin

• Theorizing Signifyin(g) and the Role of the Reader: Possible Directions for African-American Literary Criticism

  William J. Spurlin

• Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, and the Trickster Reader

  Andrew Levy

• NCTE to You

• The City in Recent American Fiction: Listening to Black Urban Voices

  Joyce R. Durham

• Genopsycholinguisticide and the Language Theme in African-American Fiction

  Keith Gilyard

• "She Sung Back in Return": Literary (Re)vision and Transformation in Gayl Jones's Corregidora

  Joyce Pettis

• Pretext, Context, Subtext: Textual Power in the Writing of Langston

  Hughes, Richard Wright, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary L. Bogumil and Michael R. Molino

• Review: Recent African-American Scholarship

  Ken Kirkpatrick

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