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A Companion to African American Literature


A Companion to African American Literature


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 2. Aufl.

von: Gene Andrew Jarrett

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 25.02.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118651193
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 488

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Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, <i>A Companion to African American Literature</i> presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature</li> <li>Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors viii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Gene Andrew Jarrett</i></p> <p><b>Part I. The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865 9</b></p> <p>1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors 11<br /> <i>Vincent Carretta</i></p> <p>2. Africa in Early African American Literature 25<br /> <i>James Sidbury</i></p> <p>3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature 45<br /> <i>Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. Green</i></p> <p>4. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature 59<br /> <i>Michael J. Drexler and Ed White</i></p> <p>5. Religion in Early African American Literature 75<br /> <i>Joanna Brooks and Tyler Mabry</i></p> <p>6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative 90<br /> <i>Philip Gould</i></p> <p>7. The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters 103<br /> <i>Maurice S. Lee</i></p> <p>8. African American Literary Nationalism 119<br /> <i>Robert S. Levine</i></p> <p>9. Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry 133<br /> <i>Ivy G. Wilson</i></p> <p><b>Part II. New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940 149</b></p> <p>10. Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro 151<br /> <i>Marlon B. Ross</i></p> <p>11. The Dialect of New Negro Literature 169<br /> <i>Gene Andrew Jarrett</i></p> <p>12. African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 185<br /> <i>Andreá N. Williams</i></p> <p>13. Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era 200<br /> <i>Shirley Moody-Turner</i></p> <p>14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad 212<br /> <i>Michelle Ann Stephens</i></p> <p>15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature 227<br /> <i>Cherene Sherrard-Johnson</i></p> <p>16. Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art 243<br /> <i>Mark Christian Thompson</i></p> <p>17. African American Modernism and State Surveillance 254<br /> <i>William J. Maxwell</i></p> <p><b>Part III. Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present 269</b><br /> <br /> 18. The Chicago Renaissance 271<br /> <i>Michelle Yvonne Gordon</i></p> <p>19. Jazz and African American Literature 286<br /> <i>Keith D. Leonard</i></p> <p>20. The Black Arts Movement 302<br /> <i>James Edward Smethurst</i></p> <p>21. Humor in African American Literature 315<br /> <i>Glenda R. Carpio</i></p> <p>22. Neo-Slave Narratives 332<br /> <i>Madhu Dubey</i></p> <p>23. Popular Black Women’s Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan 347<br /> <i>Robin V. Smiles</i></p> <p>24. African American Science Fiction 360<br /> <i>Jeffrey Allen Tucker</i></p> <p>25. Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora 376<br /> <i>Theresa Delgadillo</i></p> <p>26. African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin 393<br /> <i>Guy Mark Foster</i></p> <p>27. African American Literature and Psychoanalysis 410<br /> <i>Arlene R. Keizer</i></p> <p>Name Index 421</p> <p>Subject Index 442</p>
<p>A master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection.”—<i><b>Henry Louis Gates</b></i>, Jr., Harvard University</p> <p>“A Companion to African American Literature is a pathbreaking collection that will revolutionize the study of African American literature and literary culture. Written by leading established and emerging scholars in the field, the essays both provide a comprehensive overview of African American literary trends and preoccupations and challenge our conventional understanding of racial and national identities, literary genres, and intertextual influences. Accessible yet scholarly, this volume will be of enormous value to scholars, students, and general readers.”—<i><b>Valerie Smith</b></i>, Princeton University</p> <p><br /> “Presenting a comprehensive overview of the field from the 20th cen-tury to the present, A Companion to African American Literature, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell), provides readers with a fairly comprehensive overview of one of America’s richest literary traditions.”  (<i>American Literary Scholarship</i>, 2012)</p>
<p><b>Gene Andrew Jarrett</b> is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He is the author of <i>Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature</i> (2011) and <i>Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature</i> (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. </p>
<i>A Companion to African American Literature</i> 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, <i>A</i> <i>Companion to African American Literature</i> offers invaluable insights for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of one of America's richest and most complex literary traditions.

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