{"product_id":"contemporary-african-american-literature-the-living-canon-blacks-in-the-diaspora-9780253006257","title":"Contemporary African American Literature The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMakes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[This book describes] a fruitful tension that brings scholars of major reputation together with newly emerging critics to explore the full range of literary activities that have flourished in the post-Civil Rights era. Notable are such popular influences as hip-hop music and Oprah Winfrey's Book Club . . .\u003c\/p\u003e * AMERICAN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP 2013 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003cbr\u003e Mat Johnson, University of Houston\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State University\u003cbr\u003eI. Politics of Publishing, Pedagogy, and Readership\u003cbr\u003e1. The Point of Entanglement: Modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eLove\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Houston A. Baker, Jr., Vanderbilt University\u003cbr\u003e2. The Historical Burden that Only Oprah Can Bear: African American \u003cbr\u003eSatirists and the State of the Literature\u003cbr\u003e Darryl Dickson-Carr, Southern Methodist University\u003cbr\u003e3. Black is Gold: African American Literature, Literacy, and Pedagogical \u003cbr\u003eLegacies\u003cbr\u003e Maryemma Graham, University of Kansas \u003cbr\u003e4. Hip Hop Fiction (feat. Women Writers); or, Other Things Hip Hop Music Has Taught Black Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Eve Dunbar, Vassar College \u003cbr\u003e5. Street Literature and the Mode of Spectacular Writing: Popular Fiction between Sensationalism, Education, Politics and Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e Kristina Graaff, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin\u003cbr\u003eII. Alternative Genealogies\u003cbr\u003e6. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Visual Artistry as Agency in the \u003cbr\u003eContemporary Narrative of Slavery\u003cbr\u003e Evie Shockley, Rutgers University \u003cbr\u003e7. Variations on the Theme: Black Family, Nationhood, Lesbianism and Sadomasochistic Desire in Marci Blackman's \u003ci\u003ePo Man's Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Carmen Phelps, University of Toledo\u003cbr\u003e8. Bad-Brother-Man: Black Folk Figure Narratives in Comics\u003cbr\u003e James Braxton Peterson, Bucknell University\u003cbr\u003eIII. Beyond Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e9. Sampling the Sonics of Sex (Funk) in Paul Beatty's \u003ci\u003eSlumberland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e L. H. Stallings, Indiana University \u003cbr\u003e10. Urkel No More? Black Geeks in Contemporary Black Literature\u003cbr\u003e Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University \u003cbr\u003e11. The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature\u003cbr\u003e Richard Schur, Drury University \u003cbr\u003e12. Someday We'll All Be Free: Contemporary Fiction and the Post-Oppression Narrative\u003cbr\u003e Martha Southgate, Brooklyn Novelist \u003cbr\u003eIV. Pedagogical Approaches and Implications \u003cbr\u003e13. Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Teaching Tayari Jones's \u003ci\u003eLeaving Atlanta\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Trudier Harris, UNC-Chapel Hill, Emerita \u003cbr\u003e14. Reading Kyle Baker's \u003ci\u003eNat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e with a Group of Collegiate Black Men\u003cbr\u003e Howard Rambsy II, Southern Illinois University\u003cbr\u003e15. Toward the Theoretical Practice of Conceptual Liberation: Using An Africana Studies Approach to Reading African American Literary Texts\u003cbr\u003e Greg Carr, Howard University and Dana Williams, Howard University \u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e Alice Randall, Vanderbilt Novelist\u003cbr\u003eAnnotated Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Pia Deas, Lincoln University and David Green, St. Johns University\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400530305367,"sku":"9780253006257","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253006257.jpg?v=1730470908","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-african-american-literature-the-living-canon-blacks-in-the-diaspora-9780253006257","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}