What Is African American Literature?
After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American literature may be much more than literature written by authors who identify as "Black". What is African American Literature? fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Newark
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2021
Wiley-Blackwell |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Wiley Blackwell Manifestos |
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| ISBN: | 9781119123347, 1119123348 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Affective Atmosphere of African American Literature -- The Idea of the Black Book -- How Do You Bind Nerve Endings? -- Notes -- Chapter 1 The Textual Production of Black Affect: The Blush of Toni Morrison's Last Novel -- Toni Morrison's Blush -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Mood Books -- Hughes' Signifying on Signifying -- Bodily Feeling in In Our Terribleness and Ask Your Mama -- Rethinking Literary Tradition Through Mood -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Vibrations of African American Literature -- Feeling of Vibration (Not Imitation) -- The Vibrations of Cane -- To Choose and Lose Signature: Entering into the Not Yet Here -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 Shiver: The Diasporic Shock of Elsewhere -- Beyond the Impulse to Anthologize: the Shiver of What is Left Out -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Twitch or Wink: The Literary Afterlife of the Afterlife of Slavery -- The Twitch and Winks in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives -- Winking at the Psychic Hold of Slavery in Black Arts Movement-Era Drama -- Baraka's Reinvention of Slavery in Slave Ship and The Slave -- Ntozake Shange's Performance of Body/Air Tensions -- Atmos-Feeling in Funnyhouse of a Negro -- Notes -- CODA -- Index -- EULA