04391nam 2200649Ia 450 991078867790332120230803033450.00-253-00697-X(CKB)3240000000065258(EBL)816865(SSID)ssj0000953378(PQKBManifestationID)11599177(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953378(PQKBWorkID)10909817(PQKB)10550562(OCoLC)854968348(MdBmJHUP)muse18232(Au-PeEL)EBL816865(CaPaEBR)ebr10740007(CaONFJC)MIL507737(MiAaPQ)EBC816865(EXLCZ)99324000000006525820130514d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary African American literature[electronic resource] the living canon /edited by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-TurnerBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (392 p.)Blacks in the DiasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00625-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Politics of Publishing, Pedagogy, and Readership; 1. The Point of Entanglement: Modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love; 2. "The Historical Burden that Only Oprah can Bear": African American Satirists and the State of the Literature; 3. Black is Gold: African American Literature, Critical Literacy, and Twenty-First-Century Pedagogies; 4. Hip Hop (Feat. Women Writers): Reimagining Black Women and Agency through Hip Hop Fiction5. Street Literature and the Mode of Spectacular Writing: Popular Fiction between Sensationalism, Education, Politics, and EntertainmentPart 2. Alternative Genealogies; 6. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Visual Artistry as Agency in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery; 7. Variations on the Theme: Black Family, Nationhood, Lesbianism, and Sadomasochistic Desire in Marci Blackman's Po Man's Child; 8. Bad Brother Man: Black Folk Figure Narratives in Comics; Part 3. Beyond Authenticity; 9. Sampling the Sonics of Sex (Funk) in Paul Beatty's Slumberland10. Post-Integration Blues: Black Geeks and Afro-Diasporic Humanism11. The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary African American Literature; 12. Someday we'll all be Free: Considering Post-Oppression Fiction; Part 4. Pedagogical Approaches and Implications; 13. Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta; 14. Reading Kyle Baker's Nat Turner with a Group of Collegiate Black Men; 15. Toward the Theoretical Practice of Conceptual Liberation: Using an Africana Studies Approach to Reading African American Literary Texts; Afterword; Annotated BibliographyContributorsIndexIn this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger scholars to explore the work of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, Trey Ellis, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, Kyle Baker, Danzy Senna, Nikki Turner, and many others. The collection is bracketed by a foreword by novelist and graphic artiBlacks in the DiasporaAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual life.African Americans in literature.810.9/896073King Lovalerie1516269Moody-Turner Shirley1487948MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788677903321Contemporary African American literature3752621UNINA