Contributor
King, Lovalerie, editor of compilation.
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Descriptionxiv, 392 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Foreword / Mat Johnson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner -- Part 1. Politics of publishing, pedagogy, and readership -- The point of entanglement : modernism, diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- "The historical burden that only Oprah can bear" : African American satirists and the state of the literature / Darryl Dickson-Carr -- Black is gold : African American literature, critical literacy and twenty-first-century pedagogies / Maryemma Graham -- Hip hop (feat. women writers) : reimagining black women and agency through hip hop fiction / Eve Dunbar -- Street literature and the mode of spectacular writing : popular fiction between sensationalism, education, politics, and entertainment / Kristina Graaff -- Part 2. Alternative genealogies -- Portrait of the artist as a young slave : visual artistry as agency in the contemporary narrative of slavery / Evie Shockley -- Variations on the theme : Black family, nationhood, lesbianism, and sadomasochistic desire in Marci Blackman's Po man's child / Carmen Phelps -- Bad brother man : Black folk figure narratives in comics / James Braxton Peterson -- Part 3. Beyond authenticity -- Sampling the sonics of sex (funk) in Paul Beatty's Slumberland / L.H. Stallings -- Post-integration blues : Black geeks and Afro-diasporic humanism / Alexander G. Weheliye -- The crisis of authenticity in contemporary African American literature / Richard Schur -- Someday we'll all be free : considering post-oppression fiction / Martha Southgate -- Part 4. Pedagogical approaches and implications -- Untangling history, dismantling fear : teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta / Trudier Harris -- Reading Kyle Baker's Nat Turner with a group of collegiate Black men / Howard Rambsy II -- Toward the theoretical practice of conceptual liberation : using an Africana studies approach to reading African American literary texts / Greg Carr and Dana A. Williams -- Afterword / Alice Randall -- Annotated bibliography / Pia Deas and David F. Green, Jr. -- Contributors -- Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.
