Contemporary African American Fiction
Contemporary African American Fiction New Critical Essays /
edited by Dana A. Williams.
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 [The 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.
Open Access
9780814271681 0814271685
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / C643 2009
813/.5409896073
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 [The 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.
Open Access
9780814271681 0814271685
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / C643 2009
813/.5409896073