A Companion to African American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jarrett, Gene Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day * Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies * Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature * Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118651193
• Artikelnr.: 37651250

Autorenporträt

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Gene Andrew Jarrett Part I. The
Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and
Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865 9 1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century
Transatlantic Black Authors 11 Vincent Carretta 2. Africa in Early African
American Literature 25 James Sidbury 3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of
Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature 45
Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. Green 4. The Constitution of Toussaint:
Another Origin of African American Literature 59 Michael J. Drexler and Ed
White 5. Religion in Early African American Literature 75 Joanna Brooks and
Tyler Mabry 6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative 90 Philip Gould 7. The
1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters 103 Maurice S. Lee 8. African
American Literary Nationalism 119 Robert S. Levine 9. Periodicals, Print
Culture, and African American Poetry 133 Ivy G. Wilson Part II. New Negro
Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940 149 10.
Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro 151 Marlon B. Ross 11.
The Dialect of New Negro Literature 169 Gene Andrew Jarrett 12. African
American Literary Realism, 1865-1914 185 Andreá N. Williams 13. Folklore
and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era 200 Shirley
Moody-Turner 14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad
212 Michelle Ann Stephens 15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture
in African American Literature 227 Cherene Sherrard-Johnson 16. Aesthetic
Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art 243 Mark
Christian Thompson 17. African American Modernism and State Surveillance
254 William J. Maxwell Part III. Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and
Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period,
c.1940-Present 269 18. The Chicago Renaissance 271 Michelle Yvonne Gordon
19. Jazz and African American Literature 286 Keith D. Leonard 20. The Black
Arts Movement 302 James Edward Smethurst 21. Humor in African American
Literature 315 Glenda R. Carpio 22. Neo-Slave Narratives 332 Madhu Dubey
23. Popular Black Women's Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan 347
Robin V. Smiles 24. African American Science Fiction 360 Jeffrey Allen
Tucker 25. Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora 376 Theresa
Delgadillo 26. African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum
of James Baldwin 393 Guy Mark Foster 27. African American Literature and
Psychoanalysis 410 Arlene R. Keizer Name Index 421 Subject Index 442

Rezensionen

A master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University

"A Companion to African American Literature is a pathbreaking collection that will revolutionize the study of African American literature and literary culture. Written by leading established and emerging scholars in the field, the essays both provide a comprehensive overview of African American literary trends and preoccupations and challenge our conventional understanding of racial and national identities, literary genres, and intertextual influences. Accessible yet scholarly, this volume will be of enormous value to scholars, students, and general readers."--Valerie Smith, Princeton University

"Presenting a comprehensive overview of the field from the 20th cen-tury to the present, A Companion to African American Literature, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell), provides readers with a fairly comprehensive overview of one of America's richest literary traditions." (American Literary Scholarship, 2012)