{"product_id":"a-companion-to-african-american-literature-isbn-9781118438787","title":"A Companion to African American Literature","description":"Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGene Andrew Jarrett\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865 9\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent Carretta\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Africa in Early African American Literature 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Sidbury\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrances Smith FosterandKim D. Green\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael J. DrexlerandEd White\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Religion in Early African American Literature 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoanna BrooksandTyler Mabry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Gould\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaurice S. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. African American Literary Nationalism 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert S. Levine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvy G. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940 149\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarlon B. Ross\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Dialect of New Negro Literature 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGene Andrew Jarrett\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndreá N. Williams\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley Moody-Turner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle Ann Stephens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCherene Sherrard-Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Aesthetic Hygiene: \u003ci\u003eMarcus Garvey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eW.E.B. Du Bois\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Work of Art 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Christian Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. African American Modernism and State Surveillance 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam J. Maxwell\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present 269\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Chicago Renaissance 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle Yvonne Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Jazz and African American Literature 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeith D. Leonard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The Black Arts Movement 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Edward Smethurst\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Humor in African American Literature 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlenda R. Carpio\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Neo-Slave Narratives 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadhu Dubey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Popular Black Women’s Fiction and the Novels of \u003ci\u003eTerry McMillan\u003c\/i\u003e 347\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin V. Smiles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. African American Science Fiction 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Allen Tucker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Latino\/a Literature and the African Diaspora 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheresa Delgadillo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of \u003ci\u003eJames Baldwin\u003c\/i\u003e 393\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuy Mark Foster\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. African American Literature and Psychoanalysis 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArlene R. Keizer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 421 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 442\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino\/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Jr., Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A Companion to African American Literature is a pathbreaking collection that will revolutionize the study of African American literature and literary culture. Written by leading established and emerging scholars in the field, the essays both provide a comprehensive overview of African American literary trends and preoccupations and challenge our conventional understanding of racial and national identities, literary genres, and intertextual influences. Accessible yet scholarly, this volume will be of enormous value to scholars, students, and general readers.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eValerie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Presenting a comprehensive overview of the field from the 20th cen-tury to the present, A Companion to African American Literature, ed. Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell), provides readers with a fairly comprehensive overview of one of America’s richest literary traditions.”  (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Andrew Jarrett\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRepresenting the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eDeans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Companion to African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive overview of the field from the eighteenth century to the present day. Embracing the full range of African American literature, essays explore forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, and major authors, and present the latest critical approaches. Featuring contributions from both established and rising  scholars, whose in-depth essays cover the Black Atlantic and the New World literatures of the African Diaspora in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the rise of antislavery literature and the African American novel in the decades leading into the Civil War; the evolution of African American literary genres and political thought between the Civil War and World War One; the modern development of African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies between the World Wars; and the literary and methodological complexities of contemporary African American literature, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCompanion to African American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e offers invaluable insights for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of one of America's richest and most complex literary traditions.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988599619813,"sku":"NP9781118438787","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118438787.jpg?v=1761780919","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-african-american-literature-isbn-9781118438787","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}