Gene Andrew Jarrett 
A Companion to African American Literature [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

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Part I. The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865 9

1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors 11

Vincent Carretta

2. Africa in Early African American Literature 25

James Sidbury

3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature 45

Frances Smith Fosterand Kim D. Green

4. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature 59

Michael J. Drexlerand Ed White

5. Religion in Early African American Literature 75

Joanna Brooksand Tyler Mabry

6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative 90

Philip Gould

7. The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters 103

Maurice S. Lee

8. African American Literary Nationalism 119

Robert S. Levine

9. Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry 133

Ivy G. Wilson

Part II. New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940 149

10. Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro 151

Marlon B. Ross

11. The Dialect of New Negro Literature 169

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12. African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 185

Andreá N. Williams

13. Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era 200

Shirley Moody-Turner

14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad 212

Michelle Ann Stephens

15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature 227

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

16. Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art 243

Mark Christian Thompson

17. African American Modernism and State Surveillance 254

William J. Maxwell

Part III. Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present 269

18. The Chicago Renaissance 271

Michelle Yvonne Gordon

19. Jazz and African American Literature 286

Keith D. Leonard

20. The Black Arts Movement 302

James Edward Smethurst

21. Humor in African American Literature 315

Glenda R. Carpio

22. Neo-Slave Narratives 332

Madhu Dubey

23. Popular Black Women’s Fiction and the Novels of Terry Mc Millan 347

Robin V. Smiles

24. African American Science Fiction 360

Jeffrey Allen Tucker

25. Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora 376

Theresa Delgadillo

26. African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin 393

Guy Mark Foster

27. African American Literature and Psychoanalysis 410

Arlene R. Keizer

Name Index 421

Subject Index 442

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.