CAROL A. BLACKSHIRE-BELAY is Director of the International Afro-German Network and teaches German/Germanic languages and cultures at The Ohio State University. Widely recognized as one of the leading experts on minorities in contemporary German Society, her publications have appeared in the Journal of Black Studies, University of Pennsylvania Review of Linguistics, OSU Foreign Language Publications, and ERIC Resources in Education. Included among her books are The Image of Africa in German Society, Language Contact: Verb Morphology in German of Foreign Workers, and Foreign Workers' German: A Concise Glossary of Verbal Phrases. Her major interests are cultural and linguistic diversity in society and the enormous impact of African culture on language and society.

• The Afrocentric Imagination: Theory and Analysis Afrocentricity and Literary Theory: The Maturing Imagination by Carol Aisha Blackshire Locating a Text: Implications of Afrocentric Theory by Molefi Kete Asante Refusing to Be Boxed In: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form by Frenzella Elaine De Lancey Reassessing African American Literature through an Afrocentric Paradigm by Carolyn L. Holmes Language Realities: Studies in Modern Societies Cultural and Linguistic Transitions: The Comparative Case of African Americans and Ethnic Minorities in Germany by Carol Aisha Blackshire African Languages in the African American Experience by Alamin Mazrui Kitchen Table Talk: J. California Cooper's Use of Nommo--Female Bonding and Transcendence by Barbara J. Marshall Literary Analysis: Style and Substance Dilemma of the Dutiful Servant: The Poetry of Jupiter Hammon by Lonnell E. Johnson The Blue/Black Poetics of Sonia Sanchez by Regina B. Jennings Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry by Abu Shardow Abarry Reflective Designs in Literary Works Folk Idiom in the Literary Expression of Two African American Authors: Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa by Kirkland C. Jones From Nice Colored Girl to Womanist: An Exploration of Development in Ntozake Shange's Writings by Geta LeSeur De Jure Maurorum in Europa (On the Rights of Blacks in Europe): A Black Civil Rights Activist in Europe in the Eighteenth Century by Reginald Bess Afterword The African American Imagination in Language and Literature: An Afterword by Carol Aisha Blackshire Index