7 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present
Bastard out of Carolina, 51, 59
“Bath, The,” 174
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, 70, 75,
370
Baton Rouge Foundation, 233
Baudelaire, Charles, 118
Baudrillard, Jean, 129, 373
Baxter, Vivian, 159
Bayonne (fictional location), 232
Beacon Black Women Writers Series, 170
Beane, Douglas Carter, 39, 43
Bean Trees, The, 242–244
Bearden, Romare, 349
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, 106,
116
Beast, 36
Beattie, Ann, 5, 372
Beauty and the Beast, 40
Beauty of the Father, A, 44
Bech: A Book, 335
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel, 335
Bech Is Back, 335
Beckett, Samuel, 17
Bedford, David, 347
Bedtime Stories: Adventures in the Land of
Single-Fatherhood, 32, 137
Beet Queen, The, 107, 225
Before It Hits Home, 39
Beginnings, 45
Behind My Eyes, 266
Being and Race: Black Writing since 1970,
32
Being There, 13
Belgian Congo, 243
“Belinda’s Petition,” 219
Bell Jar, The, 127
Bellocq’s Ophelia, 35, 128
Bellwether Priz, 242
Beloved (character), 285
Beloved, 5, 24, 283–284, 372
Beloved Witness: Selected Poems, The, 124
Bennett, Barbara, 198
Bennett, Michael, 39, 43
Bent, 38
Bering Strait, 330
Berlin, Paul (character), 295
Berlin Wall, 10, 256
Bernstein, Carl, 8
Berryman’s Sonnets, 124
Berryman, John, 124
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, 60
Best American Short Stories, The, 175
Best American Short Stories 1998, The, 308
Best American Short Stories of the Century,
The, 308
Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, The,
343
Beulah (character), 220
Bible, 236
Big as Life, 213
Big Love, 47
Big Room, The, 146
bildungsroman, 369
Billy Bathgate, 5, 213
Biloxi Blues, 6, 48
Bingo Palace, The, 225
Birchbark Books, 225
Bird ’s Bright Ring, The, 59, 124
Birdwell, Cleo (pseudonym), 199
Birnbaum, Robert, 165
Birth of a Nation, 344
Bishop, Elizabeth, 265
Bishop’s Company Repertory Players, 323
Black, Blues, Black, 160
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a
Shifting Self, 27, 35
Black Arts Movement, 23, 31–34, 62
Black Bart and the Sacred Hills, 348
Black Book, The, 283
Black Feeling, Black Talk, 62
Black Horizons Theatre Company, 348
Black Judgment, 62
black nationalism, 23, 343
Black Panthers, 207, 213
Black Power movement, 23, 348
Blacks, 60
Black Unicorn, The, 33, 64, 126
Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to
Vietnam, 146
Black Water, 289
Black Woman, The, 51
Blade Runner, 75
Blaise, Clark, 65
Blake’s Newton, 127
Blanche on the Lam, 27, 34, 75
Bland, Sterling Lecater, Jr., 24
Blessing, Lee, 36, 39, 44
Blessings the Body Gave, 147
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems,
1988–2000, 32, 61