Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Reclamations: The Early Afro-America of Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Olaudah Equiano and Dav
2. The Stance of Self-Representation: Founders, Moderns and Contemporaries in African American Autob
3. Harlem on My Mind: Fictions of a Black Metropolis
4. Womanisms: Harriet E. Wilson to Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker
5. Richard Wright's Inside Narratives
6. War and Peace: Writing the Black 1940s
7. Black Beats: The Signifying Poetry of LeRoi Jones/ Imamu Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman
8. Acting Out: The Black Drama of the 1960s, the 1960s of Black Drama
9. Equilibrium Out of Their Chaos: Black Modernism, Black Postmodernism and Leon Forrest's Witherspo
10. Under Cover, Under Covers: African American Fictions of Passing
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