Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays / edited by Dana A. Williams.

Other author Williams, Dana A., 1972-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : The Ohio State University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionvii, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American fiction--African American authors. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life. --20th century.
African Americans in literature.

Contents Introduction / Dana A. Williams -- Theoretical influences and experimental resemblances: Ernest J. Gaines and recent critical approaches to the study of African American fiction / Reggie Scott Young -- Ideological tension: cultural nationalism and multiculturalism in the novels of Ishmael Reed / Jennifer A. Jordan -- The politics of addiction and adaptation: dis/ease transmission in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and Fledgling / Mildred R. Mickle -- "When the women tell stories": healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and A killing in this town / Dana A. Williams -- Another night, another story: the frame narrative in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Alf laylah wa laylah [Arabian nights] / Majda R. Atieh -- A stranger on the bus: Reginald McKnight's I get on the bus as complex journey / Sandra Y. Govan -- Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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