CONTENTS FOR
Volume 42, Numbers 3 and 4 -- Volume 42, Number 2 -- Volume 42, Number 1
Volume 41, Number 4 -- Volume 41, Number 3 -- Volume 41, Number 2 -- Volume 41, Number 1
Volume 40, Number 4 -- Volume 40, Number 3 -- Volume 40, Number 2 -- Volume
40, Number 1
Volume 39, Number 4 -- Volume
39, Number 3 -- Volume
39, Numbers 1 and 2
Volume 42, Numbers 3 and 4 (Fall/Winter 2008)
- FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: "William Jay Greenly's Antebellum Temperance Drama"
Eric Gardner
- Imagining Other Worlds: Race, Gender, and the "Power Line" in Edward P. Jones's The Known World
Katherine Clay Bassard
- An Interview with Edward P. Jones
Maryemma Graham
- The Specter of Conspiracy in Martin Delany's Blake
Rebecca Skidmore Biggio
- FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: " 'Blues for Emmett Till': The Earliest Extant Song about the Murder of Emmett Till"
Philip C. Kolin
- Immigration and Black Anxiety in Jessie Fauset's The Sleeper Wakes
Elizabeth Ammons
- Not Only War is Hell: World War I and African American Lynching Narratives
David A. Davis
- Black Church, Black Patriarchy, and the "Brilliant Queer": Competing Masculinities in Langston Hughes's "Blessed Assurance"
Marlon Rachquel Moore
- Blues in Stereo: The Texts of Langston Hughes in Jazz Music
W. S. Tkweme
- Ellison's Hemingways
Brian Hochman
- Looking beyond Lucasta: The Black Dramas of the American Negro Theatre
Jonathan Shandell
- Catching Holy Ghosts: The Diverse Manifestations of Black Persona Poetry
Howard Rambsy II
- "Everything about her had two sides of it": The Foreigner's Home in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Susan Neal Mayberry
- "A Negro's Chance": Ontological Luck in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Steven Wandler
- Harriet Jacobs and the "Dear Old Flag"
Lewis Perry
- Playing Dead: Harriet Jacobs's Survival Strategy in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Georgia Kreiger
- Don't Forget the Triple Front!: Some Historical and Representational Dimensions of the Black Arts Movement in Academia
Mike Sell
- Towards an Aesthetic of Transgression: Ann Allen Shockley's Loving Her and the Politics of Same-Gender Loving
Trimiko C. Melancon
- Pauline Hopkins and the End of Incest
Shawn Salvant
- The New Negro Flâneuse in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
Jeanne Scheper
- Demilitarizing Disease: Ambivalent Warfare and Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals
Robina Josephine Khalid
- Women's Spiritual Geographies of the African Diaspora: Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow
Carissa Turner Smith
- Whiting Up and Blacking Out: White Privilege, Race, and White Chicks
George Yancy and Tracey Ann Ryser
- "Femme noire"(poem; translation by Ana Valverde Osan)
Léopold Sédar Senghor
- "Shutter," "Clean," and "Afternoon"(poetry)
Denise Miller
- "Bypath"(poem)
Crystal Simone Smith
- "ENTERING THE STRAITS," "FOOL TO WANT YOU BOP," "SELF LOATHING FEAR & DESIRE," "TEXAS & PACIFIC," "Man Drinking 'Colored Water' in a Street Car Terminal, Oklahoma City, July 1939," and "THE HONORABLE MESSENGER, POOLSIDE, SINGING AZURE TE OR SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY AT THE PROPHET'S"(poetry)
Jonathan C. Smith
- "Tribal Differences"(poem)
Reggie Scott Young
- 19 Book Reviews
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Volume 42, Number 2 (Summer 2008)
- Out of St. Louie into the World Unbound: An Interview with Colleen J. McElroy
James Hill
- Ophelia Speaks: Resurrecting Still Lives in Natasha Trethewey's Bellocq's Ophelia
Annette Debo
- Black Crisis Shuffle: Fiction, Race, and Simulation
Rolland Murray
- This Jamaican Family: The Word, and Dreams
Thomas Glave
- "Manumission and Marriage?": Freedom, Family, and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
Aida Ahmed Hussen
- Alternatives to the "Talking Cure": Black Music as Traumatic Testimony in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Vikki Visvis
- Lost Theaters of African American Internationalism: Diplomacy and Henry Francis Downing in Luanda and London
Brian Russell Roberts
- Black "Like Me": (Mis)Recognition, the Racial Gothic, and the Post-1967 Mixed-Race Movement in Danzy Senna's Symptomatic
Hershini Bhana Young
- "What would be on the other side?": Spectrality and Spirit Work in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Melanie R. Anderson
- In Memoriam: Pinkie Gordon Lane
John Lowe
- "San Quentin, 1900" and "Tituba"(poetry)
William Miller
- "Coltrane's Naima Narrative Transmigrated by Himself"(poem)
Wanda Coleman
- "Fallout"(story)
Trilby Kent
- "Color Struck"(story)
Princess Perry
- "Cornetta's Roominghouse"(story)
Angel Green
- "Then There Is Nothing" and "Thread"(poetry)
Lena Bezawork Grönlund
- "Mulatto"(poem)
Shane McCrae
- "Knocking on Doors"(story)
Richard Fewell
- "One Mourner," "Student-Inmate," and "To Josephine from Napoleon, Black and White"(poetry)
Raina J. León
- 15 Book Reviews
Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring 2008) -- Representing Segregation Special Issue
- INTRODUCTION: To Lie, Steal, and Dissemble: Representing Segregation
Brian Norman and Piper Kendrix Williams
- BACK
TALK: "Smacked Upside the Head—Again"
Trudier Harris
- American Graffiti: The Social Life of Segregation Signs
Elizabeth Abel
- A Negative Utopia: Protest Memory and the Spatio-Symbolism of Civil Rights Literature and Photography
Zoe Trodd
- In the Crowd (visual art series)
Shawn Michelle Smith
- Embodying Segregation: Ida B. Wells and the Cultural Work of Travel
Gary Totten
- Charles Chesnutt's "The Dumb Witness" and the Culture of Segregation
Lori Robison and Eric Wolfe
- White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké's "Blackness" and "Goldie"
Anne P. Rice
- FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: "Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago"
Rosemary Hathaway
- Black Is a Region: Segregation and American Literary Regionalism in Richard Wright's The Color Curtain
Eve Dunbar
- "Somewhat Like War": The Aesthetics of Segregation, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun
Michelle Gordon
- Housing the Black Body: Value, Domestic Space, and Segregation Narratives
GerShun Avilez
- Into a Burning House: Representing Segregation's Death
Vincent J. Schleitwiler
- Afterword
Cheryl Wall
- 8 Book Reviews
Volume 41, Number 4 (Winter 2007) -- Post-Soul Aesthetic Special Issue
- FOREWORD: Preliminary Postings from a Neo Soul
Aldon Nielsen
- Theorizing the Post-Soul Aesthetic: An Introduction
Bertram D. Ashe
- Post-Black, Old Black
Paul C. Taylor
- Post-Soul Aesthetics in Contemporary African American Art
Richard Schur
- The Afro-Asiatic Floating World: Post-Soul Implications of the Art of iona rozeal brown
Crystal Anderson
- Postmodernism, Pop Music, and Blues Practice in Nelson George's Post-Soul Culture
David M. Jones
- Afrofuturism and the Post-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music
Marlo David
- "The Poet in the World, the World in the Poet": Cyrus Cassells's and Elizabeth Alexander's Versions of Post-Soul Cosmopolitanism
Malin Pereira
- The Dark Room Collective and Post-Soul Poetics
Brian Reed
- Passing in the Post-Race Era: Danzy Senna, Philip Roth, and Colson Whitehead
Michele Elam
- An End of Southern History: The Down-home Quests of Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead
William Ramsey
- These—Are—the "Breaks": A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Bertram D. Ashe, Crystal Anderson, Mark Anthony Neal, Evie Shockley, Alexander Weheliye
- 10 Book Reviews
- Index to Volume 41
Volume 41, Number 3 (Fall 2007)
- FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: "And Bid Him Translate: Langston Hughes's Translations of Poetry from French," by Alfred Guillaume
Anita Patterson
- "We, Too, Rise with You": Recovering Langston Hughes's African (Re)Turn 1954-1960 in An African Treasury, the Chicago Defender, and Black Orpheus
Daniel Won-gu Kim
- Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices and World War II-era Civic Nationalism
Dan Shiffman
- "The Uses and Hazards of Expatriation": Richard Wright's Cosmopolitanism in Process
Alexa Weik
- "Simply a Menaced Boy": Analogizing Color, Undoing Dominance in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
- Harlem is Burning: Urban Rioting and the "Black Underclass" in Chester Himes's Blind Man With a Pistol
Thomas Heise
- Exodus and Colonization: Charting the Journey in the Journals of Daniel Coker, a descendant of Africa
Rhondda R. Thomas
- William Wells Brown's Narrative & Traveling Subjectivity
Stephen Lucasi
- Object Written, Written Object: Slavery, Scarring, and Complications of Authorship in Beloved
Anita Durkin
- Bourgeois Blackness and Autobiographical Authenticity: Ellen Tarry's The Third Door
Stephanie Brown
- "Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something"(poem)
Jennifer Lisa Vest
- 9 Book Reviews
Volume 41, Number 2 (Summer 2007) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar Special Issue
- African American Review Special Issue--Introduction
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Gavin Jones
Meta DuEwa Jones
Arnold Rampersad
Richard Yarborough
- Dunbar, the Originator
Joanne Braxton
- Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Credit to His Race?
Lillian S. Robinson and Greg Robinson
- Intimate Intercessions in the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Joanne Gabbin
- Paul Laurence Dunbar's Performances and the Epistolary Dialect Poem
Nadia Nurhussein
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the African American Elegy
Marcellus Blount
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect
Michael Cohen
- Dunbar's Children
Michele Elam
- "When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers": Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War, Masculinity, and Violence
Jennifer Terry
- "When he is least himself": Dunbar and Double Consciousness in African American Poetry
Harryette Mullen
- "Purple Haze": Dunbar's Lyric Legacy
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
- Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist
Gene Andrew Jarrett
- The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics
Jennifer A. Hughes
- Dunbar and the Science of Lynching
Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
- That Old Time Religion: Christian Faith in Dunbar's "The Strength of Gideon"
Yolanda Pierce
- Paul Laurence Dunbar's Overlooked Play
Thomas Leuchtenmüller
- Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics
Ray Sapirstein
- Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and Fin-de-Siècle Modernism
William J. Maxwell
- Right to Ride: African American Citizenship and Prostest in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
Blair L. M. Kelley
- Factoring out Race: The Cultural Context of Paul Laurence Dunbar
David Bradley
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Project of Cultural Reconstruction
Reynolds J. Scott-Childress
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and Turn-into-the-20th-Century African American Dualism
James Smethurst
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings!": Dunbar in China
Xilao Li
- Dunbar Lives!
Elizabeth Alexander
Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2007)
- African American Review at 40: A Retrospective
Joe Weixlmann, Houston A. Baker, Jr., William L. Andrews, Trudier Harris, Thadious Davis, and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
- "A Guy in a Black SUV," "Mother to Son," "The Famous Colored Writer," and "Dunbar" (poetry)
William J. Harris
- Traumatic Theology in the Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
John Ernest
- "You have no business to whip me": The Freedom Suits of Polly Wash and Lucy Ann Delany
Eric Gardner
- "Suddenly and Shockingly Black": The Atavistic Child in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century American Fiction
J. Michael Duvall and Julie Cary Nerad
- How the Socialism of W. E. B. Du Bois Still Matters: Black Socialism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece--and Beyond
Mark Van Wienen and Julie Kraft
- Begging to Differ: Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Anzia Yezierska's Arrogant Beggar
Catherine Rottenberg
- Toward Feminine Mythopoetic Visions: The Poetry of Gayl Jones
Casey Clabough
- Following Her Act: Sequence and Desire in Gayl Jones's The Healing
David LaCroix
- Literary Free Jazz? Mumbo Jumbo and Paradise: Language and Meaning
Keren Omry
- "Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?": Re-Mapping Interracial Anxiety in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Guy Mark Foster
- Revisiting Funnyhouse: An Interview with Billie Allen
Philip C. Kolin
- 8 Book Reviews
Volume 40, Number 4 (Winter 2006) -- The Curse of Caste Special Issue
- Foreword
William L. Andrews
- BACK
TALK: Of Print and Primogeniture, The Curse of Firsts
Rafia Zafar
- Introduction: Reclaiming Julia C. Collins, Forgotten 19th-Century African American Author
Veta Smith Tucker
- FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theresa?
Frances Smith Foster
- "Eulogy for Julia C. Collins: Speculations on Her Thoughts in Oswego, New York at Lake Ontario circa January 1865 (poem)
Melba Joyce Boyd
- Interrogating the Silences: Julia C. Collins, 19th-Century Black Readers and Writers, and the Christian Recorder
Mitch Kachun
- What the Dickens?: Intertextual Influence and the Inheritance of Virtue in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
Colleen C. O'Brien
- "Neither is Memory Always Thus Avenging": Longing for Kinship in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
Edlie Wong
- The Christian Recorder, Broken Families, and Educated Nations in Julia Collins's Civil War Novel The Curse of Caste
P. Gabrielle Foreman
- The Sentiment of the Christian Serial Novel: Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride and the AME Christian Recorder
Tomeiko Ashford Carter
- Information Wanted: The Curse of Caste, Minnie's Sacrifice, and the Christian Recorder
Jean Lee Cole
- A Tale of Disunion: The Racial Politics of Unclaimed Kindred in Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
Veta Smith Tucker
- Biracial Promise and the New South in Minnie's Sacrifice
Leslie W. Lewis
- " 'Ruse It Well": Reading, Power, and the Seduction Plot in The Curse of Caste
Jennifer Rae Greeson
- Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy
Michael Borgstrom
- Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children
Katharine Capshaw Smith
- African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems
Eric Gardner
- 4 Book Reviews
- Index to Volume 40
Volume 40, Number 3 (Fall 2006)
- Black Like?: The Strange Case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins
Jennifer Harris
- Race, Modernism, and Plagiarism: The Case of Nella Larsen's "Sanctuary"
Hildegard Hoeller
- Buried Alive: Gothic Homelessness, Black Women's Sexuality, and (Living) Death in Ann Petry's The Street
Evie Shockley
- Knucklebones and Knocking-bones: The Accidental Trickster in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Julia Sun-Joo Lee
- Burbanking Bigger and Bette the Bitch
Elizabeth Binggeli
- Slavery, Labor Reform, and Intertextuality in Antebellum Print Culture: The Slave Narrative and the City-Mysteries Novel
Carl Ostrowski
- Historical Memory, Romantic Narrative, and Sally Hemings
Suzette Spencer
- W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican End
Jodi Melamed
- Chronopolitics and Race, Rag-time and Symphonic Time in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Bruce Barnhart
- Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series
Jutta Lorensen
- 11 Book Reviews
Volume 40, Number 2 (Summer 2006)
- BACK
TALK: A Black Gay Man's Reflections on Torture and Dictatorship
Thomas Glave
- Numerological Tradition in the Works of Jupiter Hammon
Arlen Nydam
- "speak" (poem)
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)
- "The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in African American Slave Narratives
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
- Que(e)rying the Prison-House of Black Male Desire: Homosociality in Ernest Gaines's "Three Men"
Keith Clark
- Revising Critical Judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Heather Russell Andrade
- A Love Supreme: Jazzthetic Strategies in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Lars Eckstein
- Simon Wasn't There: The Sambo Strategy, Consumable Theater, and Rebecca Gilman's Spinning into Butter
Geoffrey Stacks
- The Conspiracy of Masculinity in Ishmael Reed
Andrew Strombeck
- "The Counterfeit Sock" (story)
Ron Frazer
- TOM DENT COLLECTIVE
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- The Art of Tom Dent: Notes on Early Evidence
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
- The Need to Speak: Tom Dent and the Shaping of a Black Aesthetic
Lorenzo Thomas
- Tom Dent's Role in the Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir AND "All Tom's Children" (poem)
Quo Vadis Gex Breaux
- "my father is dead. again." (poem)
Kalamu ya Salaam
- Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson's Fences
Susan Koprince
- The Urban Gothic Vision of Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999)
Saundra Liggins
- "A Picture of My Father" (poem)
Walter Blackwell, Sr.
- 10 Book Reviews
Volume 40, Number 1
(Spring 2006)
- NELLIE
MCKAY TRIBUTE:
Nellie--A Memorial and "The Nellie Tree," or Disbanding the Wheatley
Court
Various
- "A Direction of one's own": Alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula
Lorie Watkins Fulton
- Traveling Identities: Mixed Race Quests and
Fran Ross's Oreo
Tru Leverette
- Fading to White, Fading Away: Biracial Bodies
in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and
Danzy Senna's Caucasia
Sika Alaine Dagbovie
- Maternal Discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber
Giselle Liza Anatol
- Oratory, Embodiment, and US Citizenship in
Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in
Imperio
Maria Karafilis
- The Harlem Renaissance as Postcolonial
Phenomenon
Robert Philipson
- "in the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal
Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man
Tyler Schmidt
- 11 Book Reviews
Volume 39, Number 4
(Winter 2005)
- FORGOTTEN
MANUSCRIPTS: The Short Fiction of George Wylie
Henderson: A Selection
David G. Nicholls
- Metaphorical Conceptions in Hip-Hop Music
Scott Crossley
- Freak Shows, Spectacles, and
Carnivals: Reading Jonathan Demme's Beloved
Anissa J. Wardi
- "As if word magic had anything to do with the
courage it took to be a man": Black Masculinity in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Andrew Read
- "The Soul has
Bandaged Moments": Reading the Gothic in Wright's "Big Boy
Leaves Home," Morrison's Beloved,
and Gomez's Gilda
Cedric Gael Bryant
- The Loeb and Leopold Case: A Neglected Source
for Native Son
Robert Butler
- New Women and New Negroes: Archetypal Womanhood
in The Living Is Easy
Jennifer M. Wilks
- "Wild Grape" (story)
Angel Y. Green
- 11 Book Reviews
- Index to Volume 39
Volume 39, Number 3 (Fall 2005)
- BACK
TALK:
Katrina: A Matrix of Stories
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
- Lloyd Richards: Reminiscence of a Theatre Life
and Beyond
N. Graham Nesmith
- Whose Will Be Done?: Self-Determination in
Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter
Susan Hays Bussey
- James Weldon Johnson's Black Manhattan
and the Kingdom of American Culture
Michael Nowlin
- The Zombie In/As the Text: Zora Neale Hurston's
Tell My Horse
Amy Fass Emery
- Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and
Lydia Cabrera
Lynda Hoffman-Jeep
- Invisible Man
and African American Radicalism in World War II
Christopher Z. Hobson
- Inheriting the Criminalized Black Body: Race,
Gender, and Slavery in Eva's Man
Hershini Bhana Young
- The Other Side of Paradise: Toni Morrison's
(Un)Making of Mythic History
Marni Gauthier
- Creating the Beloved Community: Religion, Race,
and Nation in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Channette Romero
- "As if I had entered a Paradise": Fugitive
Slave Narratives and Cross-Border Literary History
Nancy Kang
- "Sections of an Orange" (story)
Anton Nimblett
- 10 Book Reviews
Volume 39, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 2005)
- In the Swamp (story)
William Henry Lewis
- "Pulling in the natural environment": An Interview with Pinkie Gordon Lane
John Lowe
- "Civil" War Wounds: William Wells Brown, Violence and the Domestic Narrative
Jennifer James
- Dramatic Deception and Black Identity in The First One and Riding the Goat
Taylor Hagood
- A Ghost in the Expressionist Jungle of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones
Carmen Manuel
- Art, Activism, and Uncompromising Attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Plays
Judith L. Stephens
- Reading a "Closet Screenplay": Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the Threat of Historical Irrelevance
Brian Norman
- "This thing called playwrighting": An Interview with Sonia Sanchez on the Art of Her Drama
Jacqueline Wood
- Domestic Epic Warfare in Maud Martha
Valerie Frazier
- Reflecting Violence in the Warpland: Gwendolyn Brooks's Riot
Annette Debo
- After Vallejo and DEAR JOHN COLTRANE (poetry)
A. B. Spellman
- Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Bridging Roots and Routes
Daphne Lamothe
- The Mother-Daughter Àjé Relationship in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Teresa N. Washington
- Hiding Fire and Brimstone in Lacy Groves: The Twinned Trees of Beloved
Lorie Watkins Fulton
- Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
Glenda B. Weathers
- Echoes of Africa in To Sleep with Anger and Eve's Bayou
Mary Ellison
- "Ironic Soil": Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalisms
Stefanie K. Dunning
- 10 Book Reviews