African American Review at 40: A Retrospective

By contrast, 14 scholars, including Brooks, Burke, and Nilon, committed in the fall of 1976 both to serving as readers of submitted manuscripts and to offering advice about the journal's content and image on a regular basis.2 And so, with the advent of a new editor, a new name, and a communal c...

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Published in:African American review 2007-04, Vol.41 (1), p.5-15
Main Authors: Weixlmann, Joe, Baker, Houston A., Andrews, William L., Harris, Trudier, Davis, Thadious, Ward, Jerry W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic journals
Advisory boards
African American culture
African American literature
African American studies
African Americans
Childrens literature
Creative writing
Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994)
Grants
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
Literary criticism
Major, Clarence
Musical theater
Name changes
Periodicals
Poetry
Teacher education
United States government publications
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Summary:By contrast, 14 scholars, including Brooks, Burke, and Nilon, committed in the fall of 1976 both to serving as readers of submitted manuscripts and to offering advice about the journal's content and image on a regular basis.2 And so, with the advent of a new editor, a new name, and a communal commit- ment, a small publication with a circulation of about 625 institutional and individual subscribers, having shed its anachronistic name and abandoned its inhouse decision-making process for the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts, was poised to evolve into a journal of note. Black American Literature Forum not only focused attention on such canonical figures as Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, WoIe Soyinka, and Richard Wright, but also produced early issues on less well-known authors such as Owen Dodson, Henry Dumas, Charles Johnson, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, and, before she was a household name, Toni Morrison.
ISSN:1062-4783
1945-6182