New Essays on the African American Novel From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead

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ISBN: 9780230603271 | 0230603270
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Copyright: 5/15/2008

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This collection contributes to and advances scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition-from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop-on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles Chesnutt and the Hampton Folklore Society—
Constructing a Black Folk Aesthetic through Folklore and Memory
Blues Narratology and the African-American Novel
Edward Christopher Williams and the Other Washington Novel
What She Sows: The Evolution of African American Female Bildung and the Journey to Self from Zora Neale Hurston’sTheir Eyes Were Watching Godto Octavia Butler’sParable of the Sower
“—And I Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind:” Hibernation, Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia inInvisible Man
The Literate Pimp: Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim, and Pimping the African American Novel
“A Different Kind of Experiment”: Clarence Major’sDirty Bird Bluesand the Music of Visibility Clarence Major’sDirty Bird Blues
Underground Railroads and Drives: Gayl Jones’sMosquito
Dreaming and Waking in Wonderland:Faith and the Good Thingand Charles Johnson’s Fairy Tale Fictions
Seeking Space to Save Humanity: Spatial Realignments as a Structuring Motif in Octavia E. Butler’sClay’s Ark
Dancing Minds and Plays in the Dark: Intersections of Fiction and Critical Texts in Gayl Jones’sCorregidora, Toni Cade Bambara’sThe Salt Eaters, and Toni Morrison’sParadise
Specters of Public Massacre: Violence and the Collective in Toni Morrison’sParadise
Female Sexual Subjects in the Post-Soul Aesthetic African American Women’s Novel
Stomping the Blues No More? Hip Hop Aesthetics and Contemporary African American Literature
The Rise of Colson Whitehead: Hi-Tech Narratives and Literary Ascent
Blues Narratology and the African-American Novel
Edward Christopher Williams and the Other Washington Novel
What She Sows: The Evolution of African American Female Bildung and the Journey to Self from Zora Neale Hurston’sTheir Eyes Were Watching Godto Octavia Butler’sParable of the Sower
“—And I Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind:” Hibernation, Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia inInvisible Man
The Literate Pimp: Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim, and Pimping the African American Novel
“A Different Kind of Experiment”: Clarence Major’sDirty Bird Bluesand the Music of Visibility Clarence Major’sDirty Bird Blues
Underground Railroads and Drives: Gayl Jones’sMosquito
Dreaming and Waking in Wonderland:Faith and the Good Thingand Charles Johnson’s Fairy Tale Fictions
Seeking Space to Save Humanity: Spatial Realignments as a Structuring Motif in Octavia E. Butler’sClay’s Ark
Dancing Minds and Plays in the Dark: Intersections of Fiction and Critical Texts in Gayl Jones’sCorregidora, Toni Cade Bambara’sThe Salt Eaters, and Toni Morrison’sParadise
Specters of Public Massacre: Violence
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New Essays on the African American Novel From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead

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