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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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Series: | Cultural politics of media and popular culture.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.