Afro-surrealism : the African diaspora's surrealist fiction /

"Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first book-length exploration of AfroSurreal fiction, argues that we have entered a new and exciting...

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Main Author: Spencer, Rochelle (Writer) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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505 0 |a Introduction: AfroSurrealism: A New Black Surrealism -- 1. Mat Johnson's Pym and Helen Oyeyemi's Boy Snow Bird: AfroSurrealism, Magical Realism, and the Psychology of Reimagining the Past -- 2. Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light, Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas, and the AfroSurreal Grotesque -- 3. AfroSurreal and Afrofuturistic Cinematic Storytelling: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Colson Whitehead's Zone One -- 4. The Postmodern Fables of Victor LaValle's Big Machine and Summer Brenner's Oakland Tales -- 5. Horror and Immortality in Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer, Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids, and Rachel Eliza Griffiths' Woman After Her Last Wound -- Conclusion: Jeffery Renard Allen and Sustaining the Surreal Moment -- Appendix. 
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