New Essays on the African American Novel

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles Chesnutt and the Hampton Folklore Society- Constructing a Black Folk Aesthetic through Folklore and Memory- S. Moody Blues Narratology and the African-American Novel- A. Scheiber Edward Christopher Williams and the Other Washington Novel- J. Charis-Carlson What She Sows: The Evolution of African American Female Bildung and the Journey to Self from Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower - B. Smith 'And I Might Even Be Said to Possess a Mind:' Hibernation, Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia in Invisible Man - J. King The Literate Pimp: Robert Beck, Iceberg Slim, and Pimping the African American Novel- C.Love Jackson 'A Different Kind of Experiment': Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues and the Music of Visibility Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues - W. Nash Underground Railroads and Drives: Gayl Jones's Mosquito - S. Jane Dreaming and Waking in Wonderland: Faith and the Good Thing and Charles Johnson's Fairy Tale Fictions- G. Chandler Seeking Space to Save Humanity: Spatial Realignments as a Structuring Motif in Octavia E. Butler's Clay's Ark - M.Mickle Dancing Minds and Plays in the Dark: Intersections of Fiction and Critical Texts in Gayl Jones's Corregidora , Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters , and Toni Morrison's Paradise - D. Williams Specters of Public Massacre: Violence and the Collective in Toni Morrison's Paradise- S. Subramanian Female Sexual Subjects in the Post-Soul Aesthetic African American Women's Novel- L. King Stomping the Blues No More? Hip Hop Aesthetics and Contemporary African American Literature- R. Schur The Rise of Colson Whitehead: Hi-Tech Narratives and Literary Ascent- H. Rambsy II