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Index
Cover
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Title page
Copyright page
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865
1 Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors
2 Africa in Early African American Literature
3 Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature
4 The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature
5 Religion in Early African American Literature
6 The Economies of the Slave Narrative
Locke, Liberty, and Property
Economy, Labor, and Value
Bourgeois Morals and Manners
7 The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters
Transforming the Slave Narrative
The Rise of the African American Novel
The African American Press
8 African American Literary Nationalism
9 Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry
“We wish to plead our own cause”: Early African American Periodicals
Lost in Translation: The Circulation of James Monroe Whitfield
California Dreaming: Periodicals, Poetry, and the West
Between the Lines
Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940
10 Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro
11 The Dialect of New Negro Literature
12 African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914
The Emergence of African American Literary Realism
Local Color and Regionalism
Domestic Realism
Naturalism and African American Fiction
Categorical Misfits and Realist Innovations
13 Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era
14 The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad
The New Negro and Black Internationalism
Claude McKay and the Making of a New, Transnational, Political Subject
Langston Hughes’s Wanderings and a New World Vernacular
Zora Neale Hurston: Anthropologist-Folklorist, and the Power of Black Speech
15 Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature
Beyond Marseille
“Shackle Free Art”
16 Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art
17 African American Modernism and State Surveillance
1. The Growth of Hoover’s National Police Agency Was Concurrent and Interconnected with the Growth of Afro-Modernist Writing
2. The FBI Remains Perhaps the Most Dedicated and Powerful Forgotten Critic of Twentieth-Century African American Writing
3. The FBI Helped to Frame the Twentieth-Century Black Atlantic, both Criminalizing and Orienting Its Flows
4. Knowledge of and Opposition to FBI Ghostreading Informs a Surprisingly Deep Vein of Afro-Modernist Writing
Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present
18 The Chicago Renaissance
19 Jazz and African American Literature
20 The Black Arts Movement
21 Humor in African American Literature
22 Neo-Slave Narratives
23 Popular Black Women’s Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan
24 African American Science Fiction
Images of the Future, or Why “African American Science Fiction” Is Not an Oxymoron
Definitions and How to Avoid Them
Conscientious Sorcerers
The Shape of Things to Come
25 Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora
Is a Latino/a African American?
Black Angels in Latin American and Latino/a Cultural Productions: The Depth of Diasporan Practice and Identity
26 African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin
(White) Queer Studies and Another Country
Queer Studies (of the Future) and Another Country
Conclusion
27 African American Literature and Psychoanalysis
Name Index
Subject Index
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