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

Other author Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
Format Book
Publication InfoChichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 467 pages ; 26 cm.
Subjects
American literature--African American authors.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.

SeriesBlackwell companions to literature and culture ; 71
Blackwell companions to literature and culture 71. ^A395984
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2009050302
ISBN9781405188623 (alk. paper)
ISBN1405188626 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.B53 C57 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold