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A companion to African American literature /

1405188626

9781405188623

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A companion to African American literature /

[Book]

edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett

xiii, 467 pages,

26 cm

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Back to the future: eighteenth-century transatlantic Black authors / Vincent Carretta -- Africa in early African American literature / James Sidbury -- Ports of call, pulpits of consultation: rethinking the origins of African American literature / Frances Smith Foster, Kim D. Green -- The Constitution of Toussaint: another origin of African American literature / Michael J. Drexler, Ed White -- Religion in early African American literature / Joanna Brooks, Tyler Mabry -- The economies of the slave narrative / Philip Gould -- The 1850s: the first renaissance of Black letters / Maurice S. Lee -- African American literary nationalism / Robert S. Levine -- Periodicals, print culture, and African American poetry / Ivy G. Wilson -- New Negro aesthetics, culture, and politics: the modern period, 1865-c.1940 -- Racial uplift and the literature of the new Negro / Marlon B. Ross -- The dialect of new Negro literature / Gene Andrew Jarrett -- African American literary realism, 1865-1914 / Andrea N. Williams -- Folklore and African American literature in the post-Reconstruction era / Shirley Moody-Turner -- The Harlem Renaissance: the new Negro at home and abroad / Michelle Ann Stephens -- Transatlantic collaborations: visual culture in African American literature / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- Aesthetic hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the work of art / Mark Christian Thompson -- African American modernism and state surveillance / William J. Maxwell -- Reforming the canon, tradition, and criticism of African American literature: the contemporary period, c.1940-present -- The Chicago Renaissance / Michelle Yvonne Gordon -- Jazz and African American literature / Keith D. Leonard -- The Black arts movement / James Edward Smethurst -- Humor in African American literature / Glenda R. Carpio -- Neo-slave narratives / Madhu Dubey -- Popular Black women's fiction and the novels of Terry McMillan / Rubin V. Smiles -- African American science fiction / Jeffrey Allen Tucker -- Latino/a literature and the African diaspora / Theresa Delgadillo -- African American literature and queer studies: the conundrum of James Baldwin / Guy Mark Foster -- African American literature and psychoanalysis / Arlene R. Keizer

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"A Companion to African American Literature is a pathbreaking collection that will revolutionize the study of African American literature and literary culture. Written by leading established and emerging scholars in the field, the essays both provide a comprehensive overview of African American literary trends and preoccupations and challenge our conventional understanding of racial and national identities, literary genres, and intertextual influences. Accessible yet scholarly, this volume will be of enormous value to scholars, students, and general readers." Valerie Smith, Princeton University --Book Jacket

"A master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University --

African Americans in literature

African Americans-- Intellectual life

American literature-- African American authors

Jarrett, Gene Andrew,1975-

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