Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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Hearing the hurt rhetoric, aesthetics, and politics of the New Negro Movement / by Watts, Eric King, 1963-

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A man's game masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism / by Dudley, John, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Inside and outside the ring : the establishment of a masculinist aesthetic sensibility -- "Subtle brotherhood" in Stephen Crane's tales of adventure : alienation, anxiety, and the rites of manhood -- "Beauty unmans me" : diminished manhood and the leisure class in Norris and Wharton -- "A man only in form" : the roots of naturalism in African American literature.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Deans and truants race and realism in African American literature / by Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-

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Black women, identity, and cultural theory (un)becoming the subject / by Quashie, Kevin Everod

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : what becomes -- The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood -- Self(full)ness and the politics of community -- Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough -- An indisputable memory of blackness -- The practice of a memory body -- Toward a language aesthetic -- My own, language -- Conclusion : what is undone.…”
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Publishing Blackness : Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound /…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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Slavery and sentiment the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / by Levecq, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.…”
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Signs and cities Black literary postmodernism / by Dubey, Madhu

Table of Contents: “…The postmodern moment in Black literary and cultural studies -- Books of life: postmodern uses of print literacy -- Urban writing as voyeurism: literature in the age of spectacle -- Reading as listening: the Southern folk aesthetic -- Reading as mediation: urbanity in the age of information.…”
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