New essays on the African American novel : from Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and Whitehead / edited by Lovalerie King and Linda F. Selzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Lovalerie.

Selzer, Linda F.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Literature and folklore--United States.

Literature and folklore.

African Americans in literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 281 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles Chesnutt, and the Hampton Folklore Society : constructing a Black folk aesthetic through folklore and memory / Shirley C. Moody

Blues narratology and the African American novel / Andrew Scheiber

"

and I might even be said to possess a mind" : hibernation, hibernation, psychoanalysis, and schizophrenia in Invisible man / James Sterling King

"A different kind of experiment" : Clarence Major's Dirty bird blues and the music of visibility / William R. Nash

Dreaming and waking in Wonderland : Faith and the good thing and Charles Johnson's fairy tale fictions / Gena E. Chandler

Dancing minds and plays in the dark : intersections of fiction and critical texts in Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters, and Toni Morrison's Paradise / Dana A. Williams

Railroading the novel : Gayl Jones's Mosquito / Sarah Jane Cervenak

Reaping what she sows : the evolution of African American female Bildung and the journey to self from Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God to Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower / Brenda R. Smith

Seeking space to save humanity : spatial realignments as a structuring motif in Octavia E. Butler's Clay ark / Mildred R. Mickle

Specters of public massacre : violence and the collective in Toni Morrison's Paradise / Shreerekha Subramanian

The literate pimp : Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim, and pimping the African American novel / Candice Love Jackson

Edward Christopher Williams and the other Washington novel / Jeffrey Charis-Carlson

Stomping the blues no more? : hip hop aesthetics and contemporary African American literature / Richard Schur

The rise of Colson Whitehead : hi-tech narratives and literary ascent / Howard Rambsy II

"Nothin' but a man" : racial identity and musical production in John Henry Days / Michael New.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780230603271

0230603270

OCLC:

154703614

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