Table of Contents: “…: voice and the African-American fiction of democratic identity --…”

Subjects: “…African American wit and humor.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American drama -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.…”
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Subjects: “…American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Quotations.…”

Subjects: “…American prose literature -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : African American literature through the years -- Oral tradition and the first Black writers: 1600-1820 -- Slave and free : 1800-1865 -- After the Civil War : 1865-1915 -- The Harlem Renaissance : 1918-1940 -- Through the civil rights struggle? …”
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Subjects: “…African American theater -- History.…”

Subjects: “…American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lubiano -- Cultural narratives passed on: African American mourning stories / K.F.C. Holloway -- Introduction to Race men: the W.E.B. …”

Subjects: “…African American newspapers -- Bibliography -- Union lists.…”

Subjects: “…American drama -- African American authors.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans in literature.…”
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Subjects: “…Autobiography -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Languages.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Classical Egyptian origins of African American rhetoric --…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the rhetoric, politics, and poetics of representaton in the contemporary African American novel -- Roots of the contemporary African American novel -- Mapping the peaks and valleys of the African American novel (1853-1962) -- Forms of neorealism : critical and poetic realism (1962-1983) -- Modernism and postmodernism (1962-1983) -- Continuity and change in ethnic tropes of identity formation (1983-2001) -- New black aesthetic : Eurocentric metafiction and African Americentric tropes of transcultural identity and community (1983-2001).…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…African Americans -- Languages.…”
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Subjects: “…American drama -- African American authors.…”

Table of Contents: “…Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Entries A-Z -- Support materials: Major works by African-American writers; Bibliography of secondary sources -- Contributors.…”
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Subjects: “…African American theater -- History.…”
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Subjects: “…African American theater -- History.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…African American theater.…”
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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors.…”

Subjects: “…African American women -- Language.…”

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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors.…”

Table of Contents: “…Toward a definition of the African American sermon -- Sermonic hermeneutics in early black narratives -- Recontextualizing the sermon to tell (her) story : Their eyes were watching God -- The sermon without limits and the limits of the sermon : Invisible man -- The sermon as cultural history : Go tell it on the mountain -- The sermon and the recovery of community : Song of Solomon and Beloved -- Voices and visions.…”

Table of Contents: “…Delany (b. 1942) ; Shirley Anne Williams (1944-1999) ; Alice Walker (b. 1944) ; August Wilson (b. 1945) ; Michelle Cliff (b. 1946) ; Octavia Butler (b. 1947) ; Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) ; Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) ; Charles Johnson (b. 1948) ; Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) ; Gayl Jones (b. 1949) ; Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) ; David Bradley (b. 1950) ; Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) ; Rita Dove (b. 1952) ; Walter Mosley (b. 1952) ; Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) ; Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) ; Caryl Phillips (b. 1958) ; Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) ; Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) -- Timeline: African American literature in context -- Audio companion notes / by Robert G. …”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…African Americans and mass media.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "A clap of thunder" -- pt. 1: "The time has now arrived": the African-American community of the late 1820s -- The history of Freedom's journal -- "Whatever concerns us as a people": the goals of Freedom's journal -- pt. 2: "Be up and doing": self-help -- Men and women, private and public -- Redemption, regeneration, revolution: Africa and Haiti -- "Save us from our friends": colonization and emigration -- "Our brethren who are still in bondage": slavery and antislavery -- pt. 3: "Echoes and re-echoes": the impact and legacy of Freedom's journal.…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.…”
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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors -- Indexes.…”

Table of Contents: “…Background to an African American literature, 1680-1760. -- The age of revolution, 1760-1800. -- Literary identity in the new nation, 1800-1816. -- The era of colonization, 1816-1828. -- The Liberator and the shaping of African American tradition, 1829-1832. -- Literary expression in the age of abolitionism, 1833-1849. -- African American voices in the American crisis, 1850-1861. -- The war for emancipation and beyond.…”

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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors.…”
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Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- Encyclopedias.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Languages -- Sources.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Trouble in mind: early African American criticism as a site of ideological conflict --…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The African Americanization of Victorian literature -- Close reading Bleak House at a distance -- (Re-)racializing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" -- Affiliating with George Eliot -- Racial mixing and textual remixing: Charles Chesnutt -- Cultural transmission and transgression: Pauline Hopkins -- The citational soul of Black folk: W.E.B. …”

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "a group of groovy Black people" -- Getting poets on the same page : the roles of periodicals -- Platforms for Black verse : the roles of anthologies -- Understanding the production of Black arts texts -- All aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane express -- The poets, critics, and theorists are one -- The revolution will not be anthologized -- List of anthologies containing African American poetry, 1967-75.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.…”

Subjects: “…American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Languages.…”
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Subjects: “…American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Communication.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Black Atlantic : a bridge between postcolonial and African American literary studies -- Postcolonial counter-discourse : Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black theatre and American society -- "The mirror up to nature": modernist aesthetics and racial authenticity in African American theatre, 1895-1900 -- "Glimpses of higher possibilities": class and race in African American theatre during the early Progressive Era -- Rewriting the body: Aida Overton Walker and the social formation of cakewalking -- "Have you ever seen anyone stick so close to a cracker?"…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Tropes of Black Detection -- 3. Early African American Adaptations of Detective Conventions -- 4. …”

Subjects: “…African Americans -- Languages.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Before 1900 : sowing the seeds of African American children's literature --…”

Subjects: “…African American authors -- Family relationships.…”

Subjects: “…American essays -- African American authors.…”

Subjects: “…African Americans -- Fiction.…”

Subjects: “…African American families -- Fiction.…”

Table of Contents: “…": Some changes (1967, 1971) -- "If it's wrong in standard English it's probably right in Black English, or, at least, you're hot": Jordan on the politics of language (1972-1985) -- "They mining the rivers/We making love real": from New days: poems of exile and return (1974) -- "Jewels of our soul": Jordan on Countee Cullen's anthology Caroling Dusk, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes & Phillis Wheatley (1974-1985) -- "I must become a menace to my enemies": from Things that I do in the dark: new and selected poems (1977) -- "This is my perspective, and this is my faith": Jordan on her life and work (1977-2000) -- "So hot so hot so hot so what/so hot so what so hot so hot": Collaborations: theater, music, teaching, poetry (1981-1996) -- "We are the ones we have been waiting for": from Passion: New Poems 1977-1980 (1980) & from Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America (1981) -- "I need to talk about living room/Because I need to talk about home": from On Call: Political Essays (1985) & from LIving Room: New Poems (1985) -- "Every night the waters of the world": from Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems 1985-1989 (1989) -- "Misbegotten American dreams have maimed us all": from Technical Difficulties: African American Notes on the State of the Union (1992) -- "Let me be very/very/very/very/very/specific": from Haruko/Love Poems: New and Selected Love Poems (1993), from Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997 (1997) & from Affirmative Acts: Political Essays (1998) -- "I guess it was my destiny to live so long": from her last poems (1997-2002) in Directed by Desire: the Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005) & from Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (2002).…”

Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Means Coleman -- "Keepin' it real" and/or "selling' out to the man" : African-American responses to Aaron McGruder's The boondocks / Nancy C. …”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”

Table of Contents: “…"Dreaded eloquence": the origins and rise of African American literary societies -- Spreading the word: the cultural work of the Black press -- Literary coalitions in the age of Washington -- Reading, writing, and reform in the women's era -- Georgia Douglas Johnson and the Saturday nighters.…”

Subjects: “…American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.…”
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Subjects: “…African Americans -- Poetry.…”

Subjects: “…African American press.…”