Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Williams, Dana A., 1972-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2009]
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans in literature.

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 [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.