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Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Goyal, Yogita [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge companions to literature. [More in this series]
• Cambridge Companions to Literature Series

Summary note

African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovation, it considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field. Examining various historical forces shaping the creation of innovative genres, the turn to the afterlife of slavery, the pull toward protest, and the impact of new and expanded geographies and methods, this Companion provides an invaluable point of reference for readers seeking rigorous and cutting-edge analyses of contemporary African American literature.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• African American citizenship in the post-civil rights era / Margo Crawford
• The politics of class / Rolland Murray
• Rethinking post-racialism / Aida Levy-Hussen
• Afro-futurism and the speculative turn / Madhu Dubey
• The Black lyric / Anthony Reed
• Neo-slave imaginaries / Christopher Freeburg
• Incarceration and confinement literature / Patrick Elliott Alexander
• Satire, comedy, and critique / Derek Maus
• Popular romance and literary undergrounds / Aneeka Henderson
• Feminist intersections / Sheri Marie Harrison
• Queer bodies in time / GerShun Avilez
• Global and diasporic worldmaking / Nadia Ellis
• African American soundscapes / Shana Redmond
• African American literature and visual culture / Hayley O'Malley
• The affective turn / Lauren Michele Jackson
• Print culture and literary sociology / Kinohi Nishikawa
• Digital and new media cultures of protest / Marisa Parham.

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ISBN

• 9781009184144
• 1009184148
• 9781009184137
• 100918413X
• 9781009159708
• 1009159704

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