CONTENTS
List of contributors
Chronology of major works and events, 1645–2000
Introduction
Maryemma Graham
Part I:
The long journey: the African American novel and history
1
Freeing the voice, creating the self: the novel and slavery
Christopher Mulvey
2
Reconstructing the race: the novel after slavery
M. Giulia Fabi
3
The novel of the Negro Renaissance
George Hutchinson
4
Caribbean migration, ex-isles, and the New World novel
Giselle Liza Anatol
Part II:
Search for a form: the New American novel
5
The neo-slave narrative
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
6
Coming of age in the African American novel
Claudine Raynaud
7
The blues novel
Steven C. Tracy
8
From modernism to postmodernism: black literature at the crossroads
Fritz Gysin
9
The African American novel and popular culture
Susanne B. Dietzel
Part III:
African American voices: from margin to center
10
Everybody’s protest novel: the era of Richard Wright
Jerry W. Ward Jr.
11
Finding common ground: Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin
Herman Beavers
12
American Neo-HooDooism: the novels of Ishmael Reed
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
13
Spaces for readers: the novels of Toni Morrison
Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
14
African American womanism: from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker
Lovalerie King
15
Vernacular modernism in the novels of John Edgar Wideman and Leon Forrest
Keith Byerman
Bibliography
Index