Guest Editor's Introduction
By Sharon L. Jones

The Bourgeois Blues: African-American Literary Aesthetics in Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy
By Sharon L. Jones

The Living Ain't Easy: Signifying on the American Dream
By Cynthia Davis

Dorothy West and the Importance of Black "Little" Magazines of the 1930s: Challenge and New Challenge
By Joyce Durham

Sexuality, Color, and Class in Dorothy West's The Wedding
By Ann Rayson

Social Class Distinctions in Dorothy West's The Richer, the Poorer
By Laurie Champion

Reprint of "Story Wedding: Love Story Wrestles with Racial Issues"
By Lon Grahnke

Reviews for the Television Production of The Wedding

The Spirit That Produces Homes: Rooms of Enclosure in Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun
By Jürgen E. Grandt

Beyond the Privilege of the Vernacular: A Textual Comparison of the Characterization of Bondswomen in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Langston Hughes's Father to Son
By Tayari A. Jones

Truly Shakespeare: Simply Heavenly's Contribution to Morality and Nonviolence
By Cari Coleman Howard

What's in a Name? A Mystical and Symbolic Reading of Jean Toomer's "Kabnis"
By Spenser Simrill

Race and Desire as Paradigms of Critical Study in New Biography of Jean Toomer by Ronald Dorris
By Hazel Arnett Ervin

Dorothy West Bibliography
By Sharon L. Jones

Distinguished at Home: Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks
By R. Baxter Miller