An introductory essay.--An essay in criticism.--Largo for Adonais.--The ring and the book.--A word about Simple.--The case for American Negro literature.--The Negro's image of his universe as reflected in his fiction.--Richard Wright, Black boy from America's Black belt and urban ghettos.--Richard Wright in a moment of truth.--A review of J. L. Dillard's Black English.--The minstrel mode.--Harlem renaissance in the twenties.--The ghetto of the Negro novel.--Jean Toomer's Cane.--A survey course in Negro literature.
