African American History and the Short Story: James Mcbride's “The Under Graham Railroads Box Car Set”

JUDIE NEWMAN, OBE, is Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Fellow of the British Association for American Studies. She has published eleven books and more than 100 critical essays on American and postcolonial fiction, including studies of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Saul Bellow, Shirley Jackson, John Updike, Alison Lurie, Nadine Gordimer, Grace Paley, Emily Prager, and Amy Waldman. Her Contemporary Fictions: Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives is forthcoming from the Modern Humanities Research Association/Legenda in 2020.