A companion to African American literature / edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 71.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 467 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the field from the eighteenth century to the present day. Embracing the full range of African American literature, essays explore forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, and major authors, and present the latest critical approaches. 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 antislavery literature and the African American novel in the decades leading into the Civil War; the evolution of African American literary genres and political thought between the Civil War and World War One; the modern development of African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies between the World Wars; and the literary and methodological complexities of contemporary African American literature, A Companion to African American Literature offers invaluable insights for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of one of Americas richest and most complex literary traditions. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781444323474

1444323474

Publisher Number:

99976463075

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.