Black Saturation

Hazel Arnett Ervin is author of African American Literary Criticism, The Handbook of African American Literature, and several books on Ann Petry’s biography, bibliography, and criticism. E. Ethelbert Miller is author of the poetry baseball trilogy, If God Invented Baseball, When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery, and How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask. Phillip M. Richards is associate professor of English at Colgate University. He is author of Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters, and he contributed to Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society. Emily Ruth Rutter is associate dean of the Honors College and professor of English at Ball State University. She is author of Invisible Ball of Dreams: Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line, published by University Press of Mississippi, and The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry. Along with Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott, she coedited Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era.

"Each period has its own representatives and voices, and Stephen E. Henderson represented the period of the Black Arts Movement as a distinguished scholar, editor, and professor. His voice is unique and influential. Black Saturation embodies Henderson’s insightful views about Black culture, Black consciousness, Black aesthetics, and Black Arts poetry." - Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor of American Book Award winner "Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition Henderson provided the most thorough discussion of the concept of the Black Aesthetic during the Black Arts era. Collecting his essays into one volume is a great service to readers and scholars alike." - John Zheng, editor of the Journal of Ethnic American Literature