As the holder of an endowed chair at the University of North Carolina who has written or edited more than a dozen books, Harris-Lopez has shaped the study of African American literature, insisting upon the importance of the intersection of African American literature and Southern literature. In her previous work, Harris-Lopez has helped to change that, especially with her editorial work on widely used anthologies.
University of Georgia Press ( November 2002)įor too long, the canon of Southern literary studies was almost exclusively white, while scholars examining the African American literary tradition virtually ignored the importance of regional geography.
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