Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature: Urban Writing/Dwelling

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists from the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life.

Mattius Rischard is an Assistant Professor of English at Montana State University-Northern. He received his M.A. and PhD at the University of Arizona from the Department of English and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Programs, specializing in African American literature of the 20th century, with focus on the urban novel and digital/visual culture. He has taught writing and literature for the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, and as a Writing Assessment Specialist for the University of Texas system. He publishes and presents on sociohistorical, aesthetic, and phenomenological methods for reading the problematics of modernity across academic, popular, and marginal representations of urban life.