LEADER 04772nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910962691803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780231510691 010 $a0231510691 024 7 $a10.7312/dick12472 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460200 035 $a(EBL)909493 035 $a(OCoLC)64274687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000070968 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11107083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070968 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071157 035 $a(PQKB)11670933 035 $a(DE-B1597)458799 035 $a(OCoLC)979739419 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510691 035 $a(Perlego)775558 035 $a(EbpS)1UWZ 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909493 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460200 100 $a20050322d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction /$fDarryl Dickson-Carr 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 225 0 $aThe Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945 225 0$aColumbia guides to literature since 1945 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780231124720 311 08$a0231124724 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-243) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOverview -- $tA-Z Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction -- $tA -- $tB -- $tC -- $tD -- $tE -- $tF -- $tG -- $tH -- $tJ -- $tK -- $tL -- $tM -- $tN -- $tO -- $tP -- $tR -- $tS -- $tT -- $tV -- $tW -- $tY -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans.The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism. 410 4$aThe Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature 676 $a813/.5409896073 700 $aDickson-Carr$b Darryl$f1968-$01127223 701 $aDickson-Carr$b Darryl$f1968-$01127223 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962691803321 996 $aThe Columbia guide to contemporary African American fiction$94458217 997 $aUNINA