Black nightmare : the fiction of Richard Wright / Ian Walker -- 'Who's passing for who?' in the fiction of Langston Hughes / Brian Lee -- Ann Petry : the novelist as social critic / Theodore L. Gross -- Ellison in black and white : confession, violence and rhetoric in Invisible man / Laurence B. Holland -- James Baldwin : stepping out on the promise / William Wasserstrom -- Towards the alternative : the prose of LeRoi Jones / Eric Mottram -- Ishmael Reed's fiction : da hoodoo is put on America / Frank McConnell -- Judgement day is coming! The apocalyptic dream in recent Afro-American fiction / C.W.E. Bigsby -- Landscapes of reality : the fiction of contemporary Afro-American women / Faith Pullin -- Beyond realism : recent Black fiction and the language of "the real thing" / Graham Clarke -- Making new : styles of innovation in the contemporary Black American novel / A. Robert Lee.