African American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990: Volume 15

ISBN-13: 9781009179348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 400 str.

Opis

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

Spis treści

Introduction D. Quentin Miller; Part I. The Expanding Canon Rich Blint: 1. Those dazzling African American women writers of the 1980s Trudier Harris; 2. Innovations and institutions in African American poetry of the 1980s Laura Vrana; 3. Wideman's family stories and the carceral archipelago D. Quentin Miller; 4. A queer reckoning for Black masculinity Kevin Quashie; 5. August Wilson's time and history's Black bottom Alan Nadel; Part II. New Directions / New Literary Forms D. Quentin Miller: 6. The Trey Ellis eighties and the launching of an artistic 'school' Bertram Ashe; 7. Hip-hop in transition Joseph G. Schloss; 8. Reframing and reappropriating Blackness in 1980s satire Danielle Morgan; Part III. Global Connections Rich Blint: 9.Decolonial poetics and queer resistance in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean women's literature Angelique Nixon; 10. Transnational visions of Black women writing Shaundra Myers; 11. Ruination and a dramaturgical reading of Jamaican women's transnational literature in 1980s North America Danielle Bainbridge.