Contemporary African American fiction
Subtitle: new critical essays
By: edited by Dana A. Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Dana A., 1972-
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814205761
Subjects: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dana A. Williams; title: Rheoretical influences and experimental resemblances: Ernest J. Gaines and recent critical approaches to the study of African American fiction / Reggie Scott Young; title: Ideological tension: cultural nationalism and multiculturalism in the novels of Ishmael Reed / Jennifer A. Jordan; title: Healing in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory / Tara T. Green; title: The politics of addiction and adaptation: disease transmission in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and fledgling / Mildred R. Mickle; title: The coming-of-age of the contemporary African American novel: Olympia Vernon's Eden, Logic, and, A killing in this town /  Dana A. Williams; title: Another night, another story: the frame narrative in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Alf laylah wa laylah [Arabian nights] / Majda R. Atieh; title: A stranger on the bus: Reginald McKnight's I get on the bus as complex journey / Sandra Y. Govan; title: Re-imagining the academy: story and pedagogy in contemporary African American fiction / Eleanor W. Traylor.