Yogita Goyal

Yogita Goyal is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA, author of Romance, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic Literature and the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. She edits the journal Contemporary Literature and is President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P.).

“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

From “The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature”

May 21, 2024 By Yogita Goyal

Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

Yogita Goyal Considers “Afropolitan” Literature

January 6, 2020 By Yogita Goyal

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