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Contemporary African American literature : the living canon /

In this volume, the editors have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to contemporary Black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: King, Lovalerie, Moody-Turner, Shirley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Politics of Publishing, Pedagogy, and Readership. The Point of Entanglement: Modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love ; "The Historical Burden that Only Oprah can Bear" : African American Satirists and the State of the Literature ; Black is Gold : African American Literature, Critical Literacy, and Twenty-First-Century Pedagogies ; Hip Hop (Feat. Women Writers) : Reimagining Black Women and Agency through Hip Hop Fiction ; Street Literature and the Mode of Spectacular Writing : Popular Fiction between Sensationalism, Education, Politics, and Entertainment
  • Alternative Genealogies. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave : Visual Artistry as Agency in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery ; Variations on the Theme : Black Family, Nationhood, Lesbianism, and Sadomasochistic Desire in Marci Blackman's Po Man's Child ; Bad Brother Man : Black Folk Figure Narratives in Comics
  • Beyond Authenticity. Sampling the Sonics of Sex (Funk) in Paul Beatty's Slumberland ; Post-Integration Blues : Black Geeks and Afro-Diasporic Humanism ; The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature ; Someday we'll all be Free : Considering Post-Oppression Fiction
  • Pedagogical Approaches and Implications. Untangling History, Dismantling Fear : Teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta ; Reading Kyle Baker's Nat Turner with a Group of Collegiate Black Men ; Toward the Theoretical Practice of Conceptual Liberation : Using an Africana Studies Approach to Reading African American Literary Texts.