Bibliography of Scholarship about Detroit Literature, Language, and Culture
Compiled by Frank D. Rashid and Felicia M. Davis
Please send information about any book, article, film, or website—not included below— examining Detroit authors,
literary themes, language, and/or culture to [email protected].
Abraham, Nabeel and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream.
Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2000. Print.
Ampadu, Lena. “The Message Is in the Melody: An Interview with Dudley Randall.”
Callaloo 22.2 (1999): 438-445. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Vol. 86. Detroit: Gale, 2008.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 14 Aug. 2010.
Anderson, David D. Michigan Proletarian Writers and the Great Depression. Midamerica: The
Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 9 (1982): 76-97. Print.
Anderson, Bridget L. "Dialect Leveling and /ai: Monophthongization among African American
Detroiters." Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.1 (2002): 86-98. Print.
---. An Acoustic Study of Southeastern Michigan Appalachian and African-American Southern
Migrant Vowel Systems., 2004. Print.
Andrews, Clarence A. Michigan in Literature. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1992. Print.
Araujo, Susana. “Joyce Carol Oates Reread: Overview and Interview with the Author.” Critical
Survey 18 (2006): 92-105. Print.
---. "Space, Property and the Psyche: Violent Topographies in Early Oates Novels." Studies in the
Novel 38.4 (2006): 397-413. First Search: Wilson Select Plus. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.
Arnow, Harriet S. “Detroit During World War II.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 292295. Print.
Bender, Eileen Teper. Joyce Carol Oates: Artist in Residence. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.
Print.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Chelsea, 1987. Print.
---, ed. Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. New York: Chelsea, 2005. Print.
Borshuk, Michael. "True Tales and 8 Mile Memoirs: Exploring the Imaginary City of Detroit."
Studies in the Literary Imagination 41.1 (2008): 107-34. Print.
Boyd, Melba Joyce, Dir, Prod. Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press.
Detroit: 1995. Video.
---. “In Memoriam: Ronald Milner,” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and
Research 34.4 (2004): 35. Print.
---. “Poetry from Detroit‟s Black Bottom: The Tension between Belief and Ideology in the
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Words of Robert Hayden.” Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry. Robert Chrisman and
Laurence Goldstein, eds. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001. Print.
--,Dir. Reading Robert Hayden: Darwin T. Turner Discusses the Poetry of Robert Hayden.
produced by the University of Michigan, Center for African American
Studies and Wayne State University, Department of Africana Studies, 2010. Video.
---. “Remembering Dudley Randall,” Against the Current, 15.6 (2001): n. pag. Web. 23 May
2010.
---. “„Roses and Revolutions,‟ Dudley Randall: Poet, Publisher, Critic and Champion of
African American Literature Leaves a Legacy of Immeasurable Value.” The Black
Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 31.1 (2001): 55-57. Print.
---. Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall. Detroit: Wayne State
UP, 2009. Print.
---. “„The Time of the Whirlwind and the Fire‟: Dudley Randall, the Heritage Series and the
Broadside Press Connection.” The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A
Research Compendium. Eds. Lauri Ramey and Paul Breman. Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
xiv, 2007. 21-34. Print.
---. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press. New York: Columbia UP,
2003. Print.
Buckley, Christopher, ed. On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing. Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan P, 1991. Print.
Cashman, Holly Rae. “Doing Being Bilingual: Language Maintenance, Language Shift, and
Conversational Codeswitching in Southwest Detroit.” Diss. U of Michigan, 2001.
ProQuest. Web. 3 Aug. 2010.
Che, Deborah. “Connecting the Dots to Urban Revitalization with the Heidelberg Project.”
Material Culture: Journal of the Pioneer American Society 39.1 (2007): 33-49. Print.
Chung, Haeja K., ed. Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work. East Lansing:
Michigan State UP, 1995. Print.
Cologne-Brooks, Gavin. Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State UP, 2005. Print.
---. “Written Interviews and a Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates.” Studies in the Novel. 38
(2006): 547-65. Print.
Conniff, Brian. “Answering „The Waste Land‟: Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African
American Poetic Sequence.” African American Review 33 (1999): 487-506. Rpt. in
Bloom‟s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea,
2005. 155-180. Print.
Creighton, Joanne V. Joyce Carol Oates. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Print.
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Cunningham, Beunyce Rayford. “Ron(ald) Milner.” Afro-American Writers After 1955:
Dramatists and Prose Writers. Ed. Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris-Lopez. Detroit:
Gale, 1985. Literature Resource Center. Web. 14 Aug. 2010.
Daly, Brenda. “Sexual Politics in Two Collections of Joyce Carol Oates's Short Fiction.” Studies
in Short Fiction 32.1 (1995): 83-93. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano.
Vol. 70. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Daniels, Jim. “Work Poetry and Working-Class Poetry: The Zip Code of the Heart.” New
Working-Class Studies. Eds. John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkton. Ithaca: ILR of
Cornell UP, 2005. Print.
Daniels, Kate. “About Philip Levine: A Profile.” Ploughshares 33.4 (2007): 191-7. Web.
DeCurtis, Anthony. “The Process of Fictionalization in Joyce Carol Oates‟s them.” International
Fiction Review. 6 (1979): 121-28. Print.
Defining Detroit: Readings by Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Lolita Hernandez, Lawrence Joseph,
Philip Levine, Naomi Long Madgett. Videocassettes. Prod. Katherine Blanchard, IHM.
Detroit: Marygrove College, 2000-2005.
DeGenaro, William. “Eight-Mile and Woodward: Intersections of Difference and Rhetoric of
Detroit.” JAC 27 (2007): 135-61. Print.
DePietro, Thomas. “I to Eye: Self and Society in the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of
Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 905-920. Print.
Davis, Ella Jean. African-American Women Writers of Detroit. Diss. U of Michigan, 1991. Print.
Derricotte, Toi. The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey. New York: Norton, 1997. Print.
Devlin, James E. Elmore Leonard. New York: Twayne, 1999. Print.
Eckley, Wilton. Harriet Arnow. Boston: Twayne, 1974.Print.
Edwards, Walter F. “Phonetic Differentiation between Black and White Speech in East-Side
Detroit.” WORD: Journal of the International Linguistic Association 41 (1990): 203-18.
Print.
---. “Two Varieties of English in Detroit.” Black English and the Education of Black Children
and Youth: Proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision.
Ed. Geneva Smitherman. Detroit: Harlo, 1981. 393-408. Print.
Fetrow, Fred M. “The Comic Vision of Robert Hayden: A Brief Remembrance.” The
Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium. Eds. Lauri
Ramey and Paul Breman. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, xiv, 2007. 185-190. Print.
---. “Minority Reporting and Psychic Distancing in the Poetry of Robert Hayden.” CLA Journal
33.2 (Dec. 1989): 117-129. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit:
Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
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---. “Portraits and Personae: Characterization in the Poetry of Robert Hayden.” Black
American Poets between Worlds, 1940-1960. Ed. R. Baxter Miller. Knoxville: U of
Tennessee P, 1986. Print.
---. Robert Hayden. Boston: Twayne, 1984. Print.
Flibbert, Joseph. “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and
Began My Life Over Again.” Overview. Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle
Watson. Detroit: St. James, 1994. Print.
Gaskin, Bob. “James R(aymond) Daniels.” American Poets Since World War II: Third Series. Ed.
R. S. Gwynn. Detroit: Gale, 1992. Literature Resource Center. Web. 14 Aug. 2010.
Geherin, David. Elmore Leonard. New York: Continuum, 1989. Print.
Gikandi, Simon. “Race and the Idea of the Aesthetic” [Analysis of Robert Hayden poems].
Michigan Quarterly Review 40 (2001): 318-50. Print.
Giles, James R. “Suffering, Transcendence, and Artistic Form: Joyce Carol Oates‟s them.”
Arizona Quarterly. 32 (1976): 213-26. Print.
Goldstein, Laurence. “The Image of Detroit in Twentieth Century Literature.” Michigan
Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 269-291.Print.
--- and Robert Chrisman, eds. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan
P, 2001. Print.
Goode, Greg. “Donald Goines.” Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955. Ed. Thadious M.
Davis and Trudier Harris-Lopez. Detroit: Gale, 1984. Dictionary of Literary Biography
Vol. 33. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
---. “Donald Goines: Overview.” St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers. Ed. Jay P.
Pederson. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James, 1996. St. James Guide to Writers Series. Literature
Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
---. “Excerpt of „From „Dopefiend‟ to „Kenyatta's Last Hit‟: The Angry Black Crime Novels of
Donald Goines.‟” MELUS 11.3 (1984): 41-48. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Ed. James P. Draper and Jennifer Allison Brostrom. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale, 1994.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Goodman, Charlotte. “Women and Madness in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Women and
Literature. 5 (1977): 17-28. Print.
Graeber, Charles. “Pulling the Words from the Ruins” [Interview with Lawrence Joseph].
Downtown Express 4 Nov. 2005. Web. 9 May 2007.
Grella, George. "Elmore Leonard: Overview." St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers. Ed.
Jay P. Pederson. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James, 1996. St. James Guide to Writers Series.
Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Harner, Devin Grant. Landscape and Memory in the Poetry of Philip Levine and Gary
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Snyder. Diss. Univ. of Delaware, 2007. ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Web. 15 August
2010.
Hatcher, John. From the Auroral Darkness: The Lifeand Poetry of Robert Hayden. Oxford:
George Ronald, 1984. Print.
Hayden, Robert. Collected Prose. Ed. Frederick Glaysher. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1984.
Print.
Herron, Jerry. AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History. Detroit: Wayne State UP,
1993. Print.
---. “Postmodernism Ground Zero, or Going to the Movies at the Grand Circus Park.” Social Text.
18 (1987): 61-77. Print.
Hirsch, Edward. “Mean to Be Free.” The Nation 21 Dec. 1985: 685-686. Rpt. in Contemporary
Literary Criticism. Ed. Daniel G. Marowski and Roger Matuz. Vol. 37. Detroit: Gale,
1986. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
---. “Naming the Lost: The Poetry of Philip Levine.” Michigan Quarterly Review 28.2 (1989):
258-266. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Timothy J.
White. Vol. 118. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Hishmeh Richard, E. “Strategic Genius, Disidentification, and the Burden of the Prophet in ArabAmerican Poetry.” Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab
Literature. Ed. Layla Al Maleh. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2009. 93-119. Print.
Houser, Tai Lynden. Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA. Diss. Florida
Atlantic Univ., 2008 Proquest Digital Dissertations. Web. 27 June 2010.
Howard W., Scott. “Resistance, Sacrifice, and Historicity in the Elegies of Robert Hayden.”
Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth
Century American Poetry. Ed. Eric Haralson. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2006. 133-152.
Print.
Hynes, Joseph. “High Noon in Detroit: Elmore Leonard‟s Career.” Journal of Popular Culture
25.3 (1991): 181-87. Print.
Jabara, Abdeen. “Tales from Arab Detroit.” Cineaste: America‟s Leading Magazine on the Art
and Politics of the Cinema 22 (1996): 38-9. Print.
Johnson, Greg. Johnson, Greg. “A Barbarous Eden: Joyce Carol Oates's First Collection.” Studies
in Short Fiction 30.1 (1993): 1-14. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
---. “Fictions of the New Millennium: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates.” Michigan
Quarterly. 45 (2006): 387-400. Print.
---. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Dutton, 1999. Print.
---. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1994. Print.
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---. Understanding Joyce Carol Oates. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1987. Print.
Joseph, Lawrence. “Can‟t Forget the Motor City.” Rev. of Devil's Night:And Other True Tales of
Detroit." The Nation 17 Dec. 1990: 774-777. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
---. “Notions of Poetry and Narration.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 941968. Print.
---. “„Our Lives Are Here‟: Notes from a Journal, Detroit, 1975.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25
(1986): 296-302. Print.
Keyes, Cheryl L. “Rap Music: Its Roots and Traditions in Detroit, Michigan.” Festival of
Michigan Folklife (1992): 36-8.
Kinloch, Valerie. “The Heidelberg Art Project as a Site of Literacy Activities and Urban Renewal
Efforts: Implications for Composition Studies.” JAC 25 (2005): 101-29.
Krivak, Andrew. “The Language of Redemption: The Catholic Poets Adam Zagajewski, Marie
Ponsot & Lawrence Joseph.” Commonweal 130.9 (2003): 12-6.
Langlois, Janet. “Smuggling Across the Windsor-Detroit Border: Folk Art, Sexual Difference &
Cultural Identity.” Canadian Folklore Canadien 13 (1991): 23-33.
---. “The Belle Isle Bridge Incident: Legend Dialectic and Semiotic System in the 1943 Detroit
Race Riots.” Journal of American Folklore 96 (1983): 183-99.
---. “Celebrating Arabs: Tracing Legend and Rumor Labyrinths in Post-9/11 Detroit.” Journal of
American Folklore 118 (2005): 219-36.
Lanpher-Willson, Juliann. "Daniels's 'Digger Laps at the Bowl'." Explicator 63.4 (2005): 248-52.
Print.
Law and Literature Symposium: “„Some Sort of Chronicler I Am‟: Narration and the Poetry of
Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review. 77.3 (2009): 783-968. Print.
Lee, Dorothy H. “Black Voices in Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 313328.
Levin, Donald E. “Belle Isle: Cultural Representations.” Politics and Culture 2 (2003). Web. 23
May 2010.
Levine, Philip. The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography. New York: Knopf, 1994. Print.
---. Don‟t Ask. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1981. Print.
---. “The Holy Cities: Detroit, Barcelona, Byzantium.” New England Review: Middlebury Series
14 (1992): 5-30. Print.
---. “Home Dreams.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 303-307. Print.
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---. “Nobody‟s Detroit.” Harper‟s March 2010: 13-16. Print. Rpt. of Introduction. Detroit
Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore. Akron: Damiani, 2010. Print.
---. “The Poet in New York in Detroit.” Northwest Review 30 (1992):39-44.Print.
---. So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002. Print.
Lewis, David L. and Laurence Goldstein, eds. The Automobile and American Culture.
Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.Print.
Lowney, John. “„Why Not Say What Happens‟: Modernism, Traumatic Memory, and
Lawrence Joseph‟s Into It.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 843861. Print.
Lowry, Glen. "On Location, Or Notes Toward Remapping North American Studies: Stan
Douglas's Potsdam, Detroit, Vancouver." Virtually American? Denationalizing North
American Studies. Ed. Mita Banerjee. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter,
2009. 37-53. Print.
Manske, Eva. “The Nightmare of Reality: Gothic Fantasies and Psychological Realism in the
Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.” Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction (1992):
131-43. Print.
Marback, Richard. “Detroit and the Closed Fist: Toward a Theory of Material Rhetoric.” Rhetoric
Review 17 (1998): 74-92.
Melhem, D.H. "Dudley Randall: A Humanist View." Black American Literature Forum 17.4
(1983): 157-167. Print.
Mieczkowski, Tom. “Crack Lingo in Detroit.” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
65 (1990): 284-88.
Miller, Danny, L., Sharon Hatfield and Gurney Norman, eds. Critical Readings in Appalachian
Literature Athens: Ohio UP, 2005.
Miller, James. The Detroit Yiddish Theater: 1920-1937. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1967.
Miller, R. Baxter. "Dudley (Felker) Randall." Afro-American Poets Since 1955. Ed.
Trudier Harris-Lopez and Thadious M. Davis. Detroit: Gale, 1985.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 41. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug.
2010.
Modern American Poetry. An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of
Modern American Poetry (Sites on Robert Hayden, Philip Levine, and Dudley Randall).
Ed. Cary Nelson New York: Oxford UP, 2000). Web.
Nicholas, Xavier, ed. “Robert Hayden and Michael S. Harper: A Literary Friendship.” Callaloo
17.4 (1994): 975-1016.
Niedzielski, Nancy. "Attitudes Toward Midwestern American English." Handbook of
Perceptual Dialectology, Vol. 2. Eds. Daniel Long, Dennis R. Preston, and
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Ronald R. Butters. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. 321-327. Print.
Oates, Joyce Carol. “On Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker.” An American Vein: Critical
Readings in Appalachian Literature. Eds. Danny L. Miller, Sharon
Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens, OH: U of Ohio P, 2005. 59-65. Print.
---. “Visions of Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 25 (1986): 308-311. Print.
Park, Sue Simpson. “A Study in Counterpoint: Joyce Carol Oates‟s „How I Contemplated the
World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.‟” Modern
Fiction Studies 22 (1976): 213-24. Print.
Pavlić, Edward M. “something patterned, wild, and free”: Robert Hayden‟s An gles of Descent
and the Democratic Unconscious.” African American Review 36.4 (2002):533-555. Rpt.
in Bloom‟s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:
Chelsea, 2005. 217-254. Print.
Post, Constance J. "Image and Idea in the Poetry of Robert Hayden." CLA Journal 20.2
(1976): 164-175. Rpt. In Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. . Ed. Harold
Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 2005. 5-14 and in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Drew Kalasky. Vol.
6. Detroit: Gale, 1993. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Philip Levine. Prod. Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. Santa Fe: Lannan Literary Series, 1988.
Video.
Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. "When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in
Robert Hayden. An Essay in Verse." Kenyon Review 26.1 (2004): 150-6. Web. 28 June
2010.
Pifer, Matthew T. “Dissent: Detroit and the Underground Press.” Diss. U of Oklahoma, 2001.
Pinsker, Sanford. “The Blue Collar Apocalypse or Detroit Bridge‟s Falling Down: Joyce Carol
Oates‟ them.” Descant: The Texas Christian University Literary Journal 23 (1979): 3547.
Randall, Dudley. Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known. Detroit: Broadside, 1975. Print.
Rashid, Frank D. “Lawrence Joseph‟s Detroit: „The Shifting Story.‟” University of Cincinnati
Law Review 77.3 (2009): 885-903. Print.
---. “Robert Hayden‟s Detroit Blues Elegies.” Callaloo 24 (2001): 200-226. Rpt. in
Bloom‟s Modern Critical Views: Robert Hayden. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea,
2005. 181-216. Print.
---. “Transparent Eye, Voice Howling Within: Codes of Violence in Lawrence Joseph‟s Poetry.”
PMLA 123 (2008): 1611-1620. Print.
Raspa, Richard. “Folklore Expression in the Automobile Industry.” Southern Folklore 46 (1989):
71-78.
Richards, Phillip M. “Robert Hayden (1913-1980): An Appreciation.” Massachusetts Review: A
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Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and PublicAffairs 40 (1999): 599-613.
Rigney, Barbara Hill. “The Christian and the Classic in The Dollmaker. An American Vein:
Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature. Eds. Danny L. Miller, Sharon
Hatfield, and Gurney Norman. Athens: Ohio UP, 2005. 66-72. Print.
Rowell, Charles H. "In Conversation with Dudley Randall." Obsidian, 2.1 (1976): 32-44. Print.
Rozga, Margaret. “Threatening Places, Hiding Places: The Midwest in Selected Stories by Joyce
Carol Oates.” Midwestern Miscellany 28 (1990): 34-44. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary
Criticism. Ed. Deborah A. Schmitt. Vol. 108. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource
Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Ruiz, Reynaldo. “The Detroit Poets: Cultural Pride and Social Condition.” Julian Samora
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Rumiano, Jeffrey Edmond. They Know “What Work is”: Working Class Individuals in the Poetry
of Philip Levine. Diss. Georgia State U, 2007. Digital Archive @ GSU. Web. 28 June
2010.
Schilling, Timothy P. “The Shape of Our Despair: The Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates.”
Commonweal. 13 (2005): 21. Print.
Scott, Howard W. “Resistance, Sacrifice, and Historicity in the Elegies of Robert Hayden.”
Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth
Century AmericanPoetry. Ed. Eric Haralson. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2006. 133-52.
Print.
Seaton, James. “The Image of Detroit in The Dollmaker.” Midamerica: The Yearbook
of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 14 (1987): 137-145. Print.
Sedlack, Robert P. “Naomi Long Madgett.” Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955. Ed.
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Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Aug. 2010.
Selinger, Eric Murphy. “Several Kinds of Chronicler He‟s Been: The Books and Selves of
Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 813-842. Print.
Sheridan, David. “Making Sense of Detroit.” Michigan Quarterly Review 38 (1999):
321-353. Print.
---. “Narrative and Counter-Narrative in Detroit.” Diss. Michigan State U, 2001.Print.
Shuy, Roger W. “Detroit Speech: Careless, Awkward, and Inconsistent, or Systematic, Graceful,
and Regular?” Elementary English. 45 (1968): 565-69. Print.
Skeel, David A., Jr. “Lawrence Joseph and Law and Literature.” University of Cincinnati Law
Review 77.3 (2009): 921-939. Print.
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Smith, Derik Jalal. Love's Lonely Offices: Robert Hayden and the African American Literary
Tradition. Diss. Northwestern U, 2004. Print.
Smitherman, Geneva. "Ron Milner, People's Playwright." Black World, 25 (1976): 4-19. Print.
Steinman, Lisa M. “So What Is Poetry Good For?” [Lawrence Joseph] Michigan Quarterly
Review 45 (2006): 544-59. Print.
---. “„Telling the Time‟: Narrative and Lyric in the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of
Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 863-884. Print.
Stinton, Colin. “A Tick Bird is Dying: The Detroit Repertory Theatre.” Players: Magazine of
American Theatre. 47 (1972): 242-47. Print.
Tales from Arab Detroit. Dir. Joan Mandell. Los Angeles: Olive Branch Productions, 1995.
Video.
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Aug. 2010.
Thompson, Julius Eric. Dudley Randall and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit: 1960-1995.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. Print.
Todd, David, comp. “Joyce Carol Oates with Students at Bellarmine: An Interview with Joyce
Carol Oates.” Gettysburg Review 6 (1993): 291-99. Print.
Tomain, Joseph P. “Narrating Justice.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 783798. Print.
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Upton, Lee. “Embedded Chronicles: Lawrence Joseph‟s Poetry of Urgency.” University of
Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (2009): 799-812. Print.
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---. “Oates: The Changing Shapes of Her Realities.” Great Lakes Review 5 (1979). Print.
Waller, G.F. Dreaming America: Obsession and Transcendence in the Fiction of Joyce Carol
Oates. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979. Print.
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Lisa Gail and Margo Natalie Crawford. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2006. 117133. Print.
Watten, Barrett. The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics.
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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003. Print.
Waters, Mark V. "Dudley Randall and the Liberation Aesthetic: Confronting the Politics
of 'Blackness.'." CLA Journal 44.1 (Sept. 2000): 111-132. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Vol.
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UP, 1987. Print.
Wojahn, David. “Maggie‟s Farm No More: The Fate of Political Poetry.” Writer‟s Chronicle May
2001: 21-31. Print.
Wolcott, Victoria W. “Mediums, Messages, and Lucky Numbers: African-American Female
Spiritualists and Numbers Runners in Interwar Detroit.” The Geography of Identity. Ed
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Yezzi, David. “A Morality of Seeing” [on Lawrence Joseph]. Parnassus: Poetry in
Review,. 19.2 (1994): 83-90. Print.
Zackel, Frederick William. “Elmore Leonard.” American Hard-Boiled Detective Writers. Eds.
George Parker Anderson and Julie B. Anderson. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 233-246. Print.
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