Between the Lines Literary Transnationalism and African American Poetics

"This is a serious and innovative project. By putting poems in conversation with one another, Callahan stages an encounter of poets who, despite their differences, grapple with a similar set of concerns regarding slavery and freedom, race and gender, and the literary forms and language that would permit an ethical relationship to the legacy of slavery. Between the Lines will make a significant contribution to the field." --Zita Nunes, author of Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
"Monique-Adelle Callahan makes a compelling argument for a comparative reading of the poetry of African diaspora descendants in the American hemisphere, allowing for the revision of the nineteenth-century canon according to transatlantic conceptions of slavery and freedom." --Flora Maria Gonzalez Mandri, author of Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts