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Title:

Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays / edited by Dana A. Williams.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

181 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature.

Other Authors:

Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Dana A. Williams -- Rheoretical 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 -- Healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green -- The politics of addiction and adaptation: disease transmission in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and fledgling / Mildred R. Mickle -- 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.

ISBN:

9780814205761 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814205763 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814205674 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814205679 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)233484580

LCCN:

2008027394

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)