02331oam 2200349z- 450 991052488970332120170405080400.00-8142-7168-5(CKB)3780000000104975(EXLCZ)99378000000010497520220223c2009uuuu -u- -engContemporary African American fiction new critical essays /edited by Dana A. WilliamsThe Ohio State University Press0-8142-5761-5 0-8142-0576-3 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.Contemporary African American FictionAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life20th centuryAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literature.813/.5409896073Williams Dana A.1972-1214807BOOK9910524889703321Contemporary African American fiction2872808UNINA