Author: Walton Muyumba

Walton Muyumba is a writer and critic living in Dallas, Texas. Muyumba's essay on Amiri Baraka is forthcoming in College Literature (January 2007) and he is completing a book manuscript on African American intellectual history, jazz, and pragmatist philosophy. Muyumba teaches American literature and African
American studies at the University of North Texas.

Essays in EBR by Walton Muyumba

1999-03-15

Blackness and the Migratory Drive

Walton Muyumba reviews Randall Kenan's massive meditation on race and introduces a new word into the discourse on African American literature: zugenruhe.

Walton Muyumba
2006-09-20

Modernism Reevaluated

Walton Muyumba reviews two books: Michael Soto's The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and American Literature (2004) and Manuel Martinez's Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent from Jack Kerouac to Tomás Rivera (2003).

Walton Muyumba