Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction: Approaching African American Life, History, Literature, and Criticism Polycentrically
  • Ch. 2 History, the White/Black Binary, and the Construction of the African American as Other
  • Ch. 3 White/Black Binary and the African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift
  • Ch. 4 Finding Freedom in Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
  • Ch. 5 Disrupting the White/Black Binary: William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer
  • Ch. 6 Exposing Limiting, Racialized Heterological Critical Sites: An Existential Reading of Charles Wright's The Messenger
  • Ch. 7 Blue Idiom Lifestyle, Counter-Hegemony, and Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues
  • Ch. 8 Naming the Subaltern: The Swinging Life and Nathan Heard's Howard Street
  • Ch. 9 Identity Politics, Sexual Fluidity, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues
  • Ch. 10 Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton's Almost Midnight
  • Ch. 11 Conclusion.