African American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000: Volume 16

Kinohi Nishikawa is the author of the book Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground (2018), the co-editor of special issues of American Literature ('How Literature Understands Poverty,' 2022) and Post45 Peer Reviewed ('How to Be Now,' 2019), and the author of articles, essays, and book chapters on African American print culture and publishing history.

• Introduction Kinohi Nishikawa; Part I. Culture, Commerce, and Criticism: 1. The New Jack renaissance: Black literary and cultural production and the institutionalization of African American literary studies Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus; 2. How Oprah Gail Winfrey makes love for books Dennis Tyler; 3. Black athletic demonstrative power in the National Basketball Association Phillip Lamarr Cunningham; Part II. Gender, Genre, and Generations: 4. Collapsing ecologies: environmental justice in Black speculative fiction Alyssa D. Collins; 5. Southern twists, turns, and returns in African American literature and culture of the 1990s Riché Richardson; 6. Building a Black women's film culture in the 1990s Hayley O'Malley; 7. The fear of a street lit planet Jacinta R. Saffold; Part III. Poetry, Performance, and Parody: 8. Thickening the plot: Rita Dove's influence through the 1990s Ryan Sharp; 9. What is a Black play? The aesthetics of empowerment Stefka Mihaylova; 10. 'When African Americans Laugh, There's a Rumble' post-soul African American humor at the end of the twentieth century Terrence Tucker; 11. In the wake of Brad Lomax: Paul Beatty, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the promise of satire Therí A. Pickens.