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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.