English

The elephant's war

In African new voices. Harlow: Longman.

The black arrow

[Review of ]. Masterplots II: Juvenile and young adult literature series: Supplement Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1997., (1997), 64–66.

The Arabian nights entertainments

[Review of ]. Masterplots II: Juvenile and young adult literature series: Supplement Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1997., (1997), 132–135.

Subject to negotiation: Reading feminist criticism and American women's fictions

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.

Scenes and sentiments for the holidays: Review of Merry Christmas, baby: a Christmas and Kwanzaa treasury / ed by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell.

[Review of ]. Emerge (New York, N.Y.), 73(1997 Dec./Jan.).

Plantation literature

In F. S. F. W. L. Andrews & T. Harris (Eds.), The Oxford companion to African American literature (pp. 579–582). New York: Oxford University Press.

Making and unmaking the prospects for rhetoric: Selected papers from the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum.

Fulbrighters and other unlikely heroes: Translating of cultural texts between China and the United States

Synthesis (Bucharest, Romania), 2(1), 209–221.

Epilogue: On divisions and diversity in rhetoric

In Making and unmaking the prospects for rhetoric: Selected papers from the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference (pp. 207–209). Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum.

Email and the transformation of pre-service teacher supervision

North Carolina Journal of Teacher Education, 9(1997 Spring).

Elvis and the religion of Atheists

Culture Wars, 16(2), 15–17.

Dialect in society

In The handbook of sociolinguistics (pp. 107–126). Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

Dance in African American literature

In F. S. F. W. L. Andrews & T. Harris (Eds.), The Oxford companion to African American literature (pp. 197–199). New York: Oxford University Press.

Daisy's hill: Response to Blue Landscape by Milton Avery

In The store of joys: Writers celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's fiftieth anniversary (pp. 100–101). Winston-Salem: North Carolina Museum of Art in association with John F. Blair.

Bullet riddled/star-studded history: Neil Jordan's Michael Collins

Jouvert : A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1(1).

Before Foucault: review of Cleanth Brooks and the rise of modern criticism by M. R. Winchell

[Review of ]. First Things (New York, N.Y.), (72), 50–52.

Twenty-six views of Christmas

In Twelve Christmas stories by North Carolina writers: and twelve poems, too. Asheboro, N.C.: Down Home Press.

The homeplace

(Vol. 2, pp. 12–14).

Seagulls at waterside

New tales, new blackness: Constructing the whole self through eroticism (afterword)

In Dark eros. New York: St. Martin's Press.