books.google.com - " The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Reading_Africa_Into_American_Literature.html?id=syGgljMYxCAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReading Africa Into American Literature