Mood Books: The Textual Production of Black Feeling

Margo Natalie Crawford is Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Ohio State University Press, 2008), and coeditor, with Lisa Gail Collins, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). She is also the coeditor, with Salah Hassan, of Global Black Consciousness (Special Issue of NKA, Duke University Press, 2018). Her essays appear in a wide range of books and journals, including American Literary History, American Literature, The Psychic Hold of Slavery, The Trouble with Post-Blackness, The Modernist Party, Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post-1945, Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in Black Freedom Struggle, Callaloo, Black Renaissance Noire, and Black Camera.