A companion to African American literature

Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Gene Andrew Jarrett
• Part I The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865
• 1 Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors Vincent Carretta
• 2 Africa in Early African American Literature James Sidbury
• 3 Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. Green
• 4 The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature Michael J. Drexler and Ed White
• 5 Religion in Early African American Literature Joanna Brooks and Tyler Mabry
• 6 The Economies of the Slave Narrative and Antislavery Philip Gould
• 7 The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters Maurice S. Lee
• 8 African American Literary Nationalism Robert S. Levine
• 9 Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry Ivy G. Wilson
• Part II New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865-c.1940
• 10 Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro Marlon B. Ross
• 11 The Dialect of New Negro Literature Gene Andrew Jarrett
• 12 African American Literary Realism, 1865-1914 Andreá N. Williams
• 13 Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era Shirley Moody Turner
• 14 The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad Michelle Ann Stephens
• 15 Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
• 16 Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art Mark Christian Thompson
• 17 African American Modernism and State Surveillance William J. Maxwell
• Part III Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940-Present
• 18 The Chicago Renaissance Michelle Yvonne Gordon
• 19 Jazz and African American Literature Keith D. Leonard
• 20 The Black Arts Movement James Edward Smethurst
• 21 Humor in African American Literature Glenda R. Carpio
• 22 Neo-Slave Narratives Madhu Dubey
• 23 Popular Black Women's Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan Robin V. Smiles
• 24 African American Science Fiction Jeffrey Allen Tucker
• 25 Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora Theresa Delgadillo
• 26 African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin Guy Mark Foster
• 27 African American Literature and Psychoanalysis Arlene R. Keizer
• Index