A Companion to African American Literature

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to African American Literature

Editor(s): Gene Andrew Jarrett

Published Online: 30 MAR 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405188623

Online ISBN: 9781444323474

DOI: 10.1002/9781444323474

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Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day

  • Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies
  • Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature
  • Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–8)

  3. Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865

    1. Chapter 1

      Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors (pages 9–24)

      Vincent Carretta

    2. Chapter 2

      Africa in Early African American Literature (pages 25–44)

      James Sidbury

    3. Chapter 3

      Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature (pages 45–58)

      Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. Green

    4. Chapter 4

      The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature (pages 59–74)

      Michael J. Drexler and Ed White

    5. Chapter 5

      Religion in Early African American Literature (pages 75–89)

      Joanna Brooks and Tyler Mabry

    6. Chapter 6

      The Economies of the Slave Narrative (pages 90–102)

      Philip Gould

    7. Chapter 7

      The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters (pages 103–118)

      Maurice S. Lee

    8. Chapter 8

      African American Literary Nationalism (pages 119–132)

      Robert S. Levine

    9. Chapter 9

      Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry (pages 133–148)

      Ivy G. Wilson

  4. Part II: New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940

    1. Chapter 10

      Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro (pages 149–168)

      Marlon B. Ross

    2. Chapter 11

      The Dialect of New Negro Literature (pages 169–184)

      Gene Andrew Jarrett

    3. Chapter 12

      African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 (pages 185–199)

      Andreá N. Williams

    4. Chapter 13

      Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era (pages 200–211)

      Shirley Moody-Turner

    5. Chapter 14

      The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad (pages 212–226)

      Michelle Ann Stephens

    6. Chapter 15

      Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature (pages 227–242)

      Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

    7. Chapter 16

      Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art (pages 243–253)

      Mark Christian Thompson

    8. Chapter 17

      African American Modernism and State Surveillance (pages 254–268)

      William J. Maxwell

  5. Part III: Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present

    1. Chapter 18

      The Chicago Renaissance (pages 269–285)

      Michelle Yvonne Gordon

    2. Chapter 19

      Jazz and African American Literature (pages 286–301)

      Keith D. Leonard

    3. Chapter 20

      The Black Arts Movement (pages 302–314)

      James Edward Smethurst

    4. Chapter 21

      Humor in African American Literature (pages 315–331)

      Glenda R. Carpio

    5. Chapter 22

      Neo-Slave Narratives (pages 332–346)

      Madhu Dubey

    6. Chapter 23

      Popular Black Women's Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan (pages 347–359)

      Robin V. Smiles

    7. Chapter 24

      African American Science Fiction (pages 360–375)

      Jeffrey Allen Tucker

    8. Chapter 25

      Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora (pages 376–392)

      Theresa Delgadillo

    9. Chapter 26

      African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin (pages 393–409)

      Guy Mark Foster

    10. Chapter 27

      African American Literature and Psychoanalysis (pages 410–420)

      Arlene R. Keizer

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      Name Index (pages 421–441)

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      Subject Index (pages 442–467)

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