Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies. In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger scholars to explore the work of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, Trey Ellis, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, Kyle Baker, Danzy Senna, Nikki Turner, and many others. The collection is bracketed by a foreword by novelist and graphic artist Mat Johnson, one of the most exciting and innovative contemporary African American writers, and an afterword by Alice Randall, author of the controversial parody The Wind Done Gone. Together, King and Moody-Turner make the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies. “A compelling collection of essays on the ongoing relevance of African American literature to our collective understanding of American history, society, and culture. Featuring a wide array of writers from all corners of the literary academy, the book will have national appeal and offer strategies for teaching African American literature in colleges and universities across the country.” —Gene Jarrett, Boston University “[This book describes] a fruitful tension that brings scholars of major reputation together with newly emerging critics to explore the full range of literary activities that have flourished in the post-Civil Rights era. Notable are such popular influences as hip-hop music and Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club.” —American Literary Scholarship, 2013
This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period.
If Jazz defines a place where the hopeful and deluded seek fulfillment, Bailey's Cafe creates a space where the lost and violated gather. As she did in Mama Day with Willow Springs, Naylor constructs Bailey's Cafe as a ''no place,'' as ...
In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The...
Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings. ... In Black Women Writers (1950–1980), edited by Mari Evans. ... Walkowitz, Rebecca L.“Shakespeare in Harlem: The Norton Anthology, 'Propaganda,' Langston Hughes.
Blackness as “the state of exception,” I argue in this chapter, exposes the fact that the sovereign violence of whiteness opens a “zone of indistinction” between violence and law, and hence in the politics of “inclusive exclusion” ...
Critics as diverse as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Barbara E. Johnson, W. Lawrence Hogue, and J. Lee Greene have argued that the goal of many African American authors and texts has been, and should be, ...
In Black Women Writers (19501980): A Critical Evaluation. ... Coleman, James W. Faithful vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-century African American fiction. ... Father-daughter Incest.
Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women. New York: William Morrow, 1983. Barrios, Olga. The Black Theater Movement in the United States and in South Africa: A Comparative Approach. Dissertation, University of California, ...
This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing.
Featuring contributions from both established and rising scholars, whose in-depth essays cover the Black Atlantic and the New World literatures of the African Diaspora in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the rise of ...