LEADER 04424nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463891403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-00697-X 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065258 035 $a(EBL)816865 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000953378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11599177 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10909817 035 $a(PQKB)10550562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816865 035 $a(OCoLC)854968348 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18232 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816865 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10740007 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL507737 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065258 100 $a20130514d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aContemporary African American literature$b[electronic resource] $ethe living canon /$fedited by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 225 1 $aBlacks in the Diaspora 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00625-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Fiction 327 $a5. 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 Slumberland 327 $a10. 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 Bibliography 327 $aContributorsIndex 330 $aIn this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger scholars to explore the work of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, Trey Ellis, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, Kyle Baker, Danzy Senna, Nikki Turner, and many others. The collection is bracketed by a foreword by novelist and graphic arti 410 0$aBlacks in the Diaspora 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 676 $a810.9/896073 701 $aKing$b Lovalerie$0985511 701 $aMoody-Turner$b Shirley$01031037 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463891403321 996 $aContemporary African American literature$92448228 997 $aUNINA