Contemporary African American Fiction : New Critical Essays /
In Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays, edited by Dana A. Williams, eight contributors examine trends and ideas which characterize African American fiction since 1970. They investigate many of the key inquiries which inform discussions about the condition of contemporary Afric...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.